To be balanced is to live in harmony with life. When you're balanced you have greater stability and focus to confidently take the next step, and move forward in life in a steady way.
However, it is not about finding the perfect, static balance. Life is always changing and is a movement. Life is energy in motion, all things change and so do we. Whenever we set up camp somewhere and think we’ve found the perfect balance - we're quickly forced out of balance again because we’ve made ourselves static, instead of being adaptive to the environment. We always need to see ourselves in relation to the environment and our situations in life.
If we hold our ground when circumstances change we are easily knocked off balance. It needs to be a constant balancing, moment to moment, but how do we make sure that we keep up with the unpredictable movement of life, its sharp turns, and unfamiliar ways?
For example: if we see someone that lies next to their crashed car on the highway. We need to be able to adapt to the situation and do whatever life is asking of us in that dramatic event. The essence of staying in balance is simply to say yes to whatever is happening.
The only constant in life, is change, by embracing change and to say yes to whatever is in front of us we are able to respond in a focused and appropriate way.
By having an attitude of no, we avoid the circumstances and creates resistance to whatever is happening, and when we create resistance we lose our own equilibrium, we lose our balance. Say yes to life, and balance is restored.
Life is naturally self balancing
Nature holds the secrets of the universe. The ecosystem we live in and are a part of, is always balancing itself. Its nature is to move towards a state of equilibrium and homeostasis.
However, man and his actions like to challenge this state of organic stability in nature. We’re polluting and destroying the environment. We don't honestly acknowledge the effects our actions lead to as they are obscured by our obsession with materialistic, selfish and narrow-minded desires. This leads to imbalance, which again create more greed and selfishness. And we're lost in a vicious circle of destruction.
«Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better» - Albert Einstein
Imagine
stepping into a forest, there is a certain serenity there, a peace, harmony, calmness. Nature is the definition of natural (obviously) - its open, innocent, effortless, and is in a state of peace. Something within us is attracted to those qualities because they resonate with what we value in ourselves. If we move towards what we value and aspire to that, we simultaneously move towards balance. Value the qualities of nature, be open, innocent, calm and balance and equilibrium can be experienced.
To be in an act of pushing away what we don't want, overtly pulling towards things we do want or intellectually grasping: we are in states of strain, we are not resting. Our resistance creates tension and dissatisfaction.
By moving towards our natural qualities we restore balance. We don't really need to do anything, because to be balanced is to be natural, and natural is to be simple, effortless and in a state of allowing. This can happen spontaneously - take a deep breath, and lessens the need to resist, reach for anything more, or to grasp - just relax into your own equilibrium, your own serenity, be content with this moment.
Resistance is futile
When we resist the organic movement of life and where it moves us. When we put our hands in front of us and say no to whatever life presents us. We become static, we become rigid and motionless. Therefore we are not in harmony with the movement of life. We put ourselves in a position that is deemed to be knocked out of balance.
Life can become simple if we focus on what holds us in balance, if we nourish our ability to become peaceful and open, we can relax into whatever is happening and let it simply move us in whatever direction it goes.
Walk hand-in-hand with existence
Each next step becomes more obvious and effortless as we connect with the movement of life. When we're in total balance with life, there is no longer a distinction between ourselves and the rest of existence - we’re holding hands with all of existence, and all of existence balances us in return.
For me, everything is in the acceptance of one’s personality. NIce post!
I liked the whole article, but the image of the stones!
let me explain; human being should CHANGE to keep balance, a set of rock, should stay to keep balance.
looking at those rocks may reflect in viewer's unconsciousness, that balance needs solidness.
that's my point of view, ofcourse :)
thanks for sharing
Yes, great point your making. Another way to see it that be being in balance we create more a stable equilibrium and strong foundation as the stones also can represent? I still think your point is very valid as this wasn't obvious in the article, and will take your advice into considerations in my next posts! Thank you brother.
Glad to hear your kind comment 🙇♂️
Love your style of writing. Always such a pleasure to read.
Happy to hear that :)
Balance for me is being able to adapt to life's uncertainties, being able to cope up with change...in short, I agree with what you have stated above.
This is a great content my friend, for me, this is worth to be curied.
Keep on steeming!
Thank you for your kind comment, keep on balancing ;)
I really enjoyed that post!
Thanks, Guillaume. Appreciate that you take the time to comment.
I really like this post. Thx xx
Thank you for your kind comment, have a nice one.
There are principle and balance. For example, smoking is totally bad, so there is no balance with smoking. Murdering is totally bad. Same with meat eating and animal abuse and slaughter.
When you talk to some meat eaters, they would go. Yeah, I agree with you but I want to be in balance. Protein is not all bad. I want to eat for my health.
That's same as a murder saying. "Some murder is good. I get quick money from the victim. I need money for my own survival. It's balance. I don't randomly kill anyone. I only kill a few rich people."
Under the principle, then we seek balance like within different styles of plant-based whole food eating. Fruitarian style, breathtarian style, raw-foodist style, asian vegan, western vegan, starch style vegan ...etc.
Good point you are making, couldn't agree more. Balance isn't necessarily to be in the middle of two extremes. It's more about finding out what is working for yourself and trusting wherever that takes you from my perspective. Great to hear your insight, have a great day and eat those watermelons!
Watermelon very expensive in Canada. No promotion on it, lately. I'm watching the watermelon price daily, hoping it will drop. Are you sill in Thailand or back to Norway now? Fruits must be so expensive there too.
Back in Norway, very expensive fruits here. The watermelons are around 3-4 dollars per KG.
There will be days government found it cost saving on health care to subsidy fruits. Making it cheaper in order to reduce total health care spent.
Great motivation and relevant to my life as steemer right now..we need to balance everything in our lives..keep it sir @fruitarianism👍👍
To be balanced is to be Natural and to be natural is to be simple...i love that line as it summarizes the whole write up...in my own view until we beings start becoming natural and flowing along with nature we will keep getting the world wrong thereby falling off balance.
Why am i here on earth? What is my purpose here on earth? Until you asked yourself these questions then take a deep breath,only then will you realize that to fulfil the answers to that questions you must be in synergy with nature, and to be in synergy with nature you must be Natural. Thank you
What does balance mean to me? Hm... Balance between working and relaxing. Between eating to saturate myself and not stuffing myself. To have a good relationship with my family and friends, not being above them nor below.
It's not always easy, but I think the more we are open, innocent and curious about our experience as well as developing trust and focus we become more and more balanced, it can be difficult and is just like excercising a muscle - we become stronger and stronger in ourselves, standing firmly on our own two feet.