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| What images does the word “balance” invoke for you? For us, it’s the yin/yang symbol, followed by the image of a tightrope walker, carrying a pole. We talk about yin/yang balance in Repair 00.
As for the tightrope walker, he’s never in perfect balance. He continually moves the pole up and down and shifts weight from the right to the left. A little too much movement in one direction is quickly balanced by shifting weight in the other direction. The walker is never really in perfect balance for more than a moment. If he were, he would fall.
Life is a tightrope and like the tightrope walker you will never be in balance for long. If you were to strive to avoid all extremes you’d limit your life and would certainly generate anxiety. Do not use this thinking as an excuse to be overindulgent, but if that is what you need to do, you’ll soon generate an opposite pull of the forces.
If you know you’re badly out of balance, take action before your bodymind finds a way of doing it for you. But stop worrying about finding perfect balance. If you can replace yin behavior with positive challenge, do it. Instead of endangering your mental or physical health, find a way to generate the needed experience, but in a way that can serve you.
From the perspective of reincarnation, we swing back and forth through our lifetimes in an ongoing quest to attain balance. And from this overview, good really isn’t good and bad isn’t bad. They are not opposites in conflict, but two harmonious aspects of the same thing.
Life seeks balance. There can be no winter without a spring, no life without death, and no happiness without sadness. If one aspect of your relationship swings out of balance, other aspects will change in an attempt to find balance.
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