What a beautiful shift in your thinking Chris. Your journey continues to deepen those of us fortunate to share it with you!
For me “balance” is a state that results in a feeling of peace. No stressful striving to force an outcome. The only way to arrive there is by trusting in who God is. “Full stop” ( to quote you!).
Chris, you always search for the hidden words that live at the edges of things. Thank you.
My thoughts on balance-
Life is like surfing, where you paddle helplessly in an infinite sea being pushed by forces you can't see. Listening to cues from Universe, it's about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what's showing up for you. When you go with the flow your surfing life force.
In yoga when I start to feel unsteady in a balance pose, I ask my students and myself to lift the heart a little higher. Balance is found at the center of acceptance.
Balance is a feeling to me. To steal a phrase from the sporting world, it’s being in the zone. Some days it’s a golf swing that results in a pure shot. Other days it’s making my family laugh out loud at a story from my past. Spiritually it’s realizing we are all one and we are all connected. One love.
Since I know you are a music lover, consider the words about Balance from Leon Russell.
"But right now, that is not the part of the trail we are on, and I really don’t want to miss the views and the vistas of this part. They are spectacular." Love.
I needed to noodle on this awhile, so sorry for the delayed response. I wanted to answer ALL your questions. Balance to me is a tension between two train rails going forward and never backward. If you have ever tried to walk on a train rail, it is not easy that requires a different kind of balance. One rail is me trying to do what I typically do and that is things on my own and in my own strength. The other rail is surrendering to God and plugging into His power, direction, love, and encouragement. I find myself hopping back and forth between the rails, but thank God they are both heading in the same general direction (or I would be extremely miserable). I find my best ‘feeling’ of balance when I am on God’s rail. It is the rail that carries the POWER. It is the rail that is effortless. When things/situations calm back down I tend go back to “my” rail for a while. Since I love the experience on God’s rail, I am not sure why I leave it for mine. It is humbling honestly and tells me that I still have spiritual growth that needs to occur to where I constantly let God carry me on His rail and I can allow my rail to be unused and unkept to the point that I don’t want to be on that rail anymore. That is my role - to keep learning to surrender my wants and desires to His. In that space is the closest I can be to true peace and love this side of heaven. Much love brother.
What a beautiful shift in your thinking Chris. Your journey continues to deepen those of us fortunate to share it with you!
For me “balance” is a state that results in a feeling of peace. No stressful striving to force an outcome. The only way to arrive there is by trusting in who God is. “Full stop” ( to quote you!).
I loved the hope and wisdom in this update!!
Chris, you always search for the hidden words that live at the edges of things. Thank you.
My thoughts on balance-
Life is like surfing, where you paddle helplessly in an infinite sea being pushed by forces you can't see. Listening to cues from Universe, it's about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what's showing up for you. When you go with the flow your surfing life force.
In yoga when I start to feel unsteady in a balance pose, I ask my students and myself to lift the heart a little higher. Balance is found at the center of acceptance.
So much love my dear friend.
Balance is a feeling to me. To steal a phrase from the sporting world, it’s being in the zone. Some days it’s a golf swing that results in a pure shot. Other days it’s making my family laugh out loud at a story from my past. Spiritually it’s realizing we are all one and we are all connected. One love.
Since I know you are a music lover, consider the words about Balance from Leon Russell.
I'm up on the tightwire
one side's ice and one is fire
its a circus game with you and me
I'm up on the tightrope
one side's hate and one is hope
but the tophat on my head is all you see
And the wire seems to be
the only place for me
a comedy of errors
and I'm falling
Like a rubber-neck giraffe
you look into my past
well maybe you're just to blind to - see
I'm up in the spotlight
ohh does it feel right
ohh the altitude
seems to get to me
I'm up on the tightwire
flanked by life and the funeral pyre
putting on a show
for you to see
Like a rubber-neck giraffe
you look into my past
well maybe you're just too blind to - see
I'm up in the spotlight
ohh does it feel right
ohh the altitude
really gets to get to me
I'm up on the tightwire
flanked by life and the funeral pyre
putting on a show for you to see
"But right now, that is not the part of the trail we are on, and I really don’t want to miss the views and the vistas of this part. They are spectacular." Love.
I needed to noodle on this awhile, so sorry for the delayed response. I wanted to answer ALL your questions. Balance to me is a tension between two train rails going forward and never backward. If you have ever tried to walk on a train rail, it is not easy that requires a different kind of balance. One rail is me trying to do what I typically do and that is things on my own and in my own strength. The other rail is surrendering to God and plugging into His power, direction, love, and encouragement. I find myself hopping back and forth between the rails, but thank God they are both heading in the same general direction (or I would be extremely miserable). I find my best ‘feeling’ of balance when I am on God’s rail. It is the rail that carries the POWER. It is the rail that is effortless. When things/situations calm back down I tend go back to “my” rail for a while. Since I love the experience on God’s rail, I am not sure why I leave it for mine. It is humbling honestly and tells me that I still have spiritual growth that needs to occur to where I constantly let God carry me on His rail and I can allow my rail to be unused and unkept to the point that I don’t want to be on that rail anymore. That is my role - to keep learning to surrender my wants and desires to His. In that space is the closest I can be to true peace and love this side of heaven. Much love brother.