It’s appropriate to throw in a little piece about the human spirit at this point.  In all the talk of magic, finding who we are, alignment, remembering worth, and being our own cheerleader, sometimes we forget the balance in our lives.  We become obsessed with proving a point rather than living in our fullest expression of who we are.  Or we tie our worth to the external things or to other people’s validation.  That is the quickest way to be out of balance because the barometer is outside of who we are.  We’ve given the reins of our happiness to something outside of us.  Yes, I speak of purpose and magic and the endless supply of the universe, but even that has some limitation.  What I mean is that there are times we have to replenish ourselves for the sake of replenishing.  We need to operate on all cylinders so to speak.  Balance is about novelty and routine. Rest and challenge.  Learning and creation.  It’s an appreciation of all that makes life whole.

In the grand scheme of balance we can talk about how we live: work/life, health/nutrition, diet/exercise,  obligation/play.  But balance takes on more than that.  Balance is about knowing what balance looks like for us.  It’s about what living well looks like for us.  Here we are back at knowing ourselves again.  Clearly this is a theme.  I spent years under the guise of doing what I was told thinking I was doing the right thing—because I was told it was the right thing.  I never realized the damage it would do as an adult.  I never realized how disconnected I was from that inner knowing.  All the time I felt those flashes of inspiration and even fell into flow and then snapped myself out of it because I was told it was selfish or not worth it created a negative connotation to creation.  Production was key, and the only valid production was working on someone else’s dream or doing what I was told.  Life is about serving and creation.  Assisting and independence—and also being assisted.

We aren’t meant to handle it all.  We aren’t meant to create all.  We are meant to exist in the place between.  Life is a give and take that requires both boundaries and limitlessness.  It isn’t about using all of our energy to serve any more than it is about taking in all the energy around us.  And it certainly isn’t about deeming any one person’s goals or dreams as more worthy than another’s.  Our job is to remember our value and to share that with the world as equally as it’s our responsibility to recognize the value in others.  We are all worthy of our dreams and of attaining our purpose.  That is the sole reason for being here.  When we find the sweet spot in flow as we talked about yesterday, when we know that energy is limitless from outside, we are better able to run our battery and recognize when we need to recharge it.  Finding that flow is about knowing when we are functioning in which capacity.  That is balance.