So finding my balancing point has often been a challenge in my life. I sometimes struggle to stay away from foods that, lets face it we are all better off without, or balance my work and home life, not accepting that my family needs me just as much if not more that my clients do. And how do I find balance when I feel pulled in so many directions??
So I placed a challenge in front of me, to post 4 times a week on my blog, the place that helps me put my balance into perspective, and after making that commitment, actually 5 days in, today, I get a message from my BFF, that says "so waiting for those 4". This is when I know I am not quite balanced. So I have been writing, don't get me wrong, actually with my ADD, I have been doing a lot of writing, just on 5 different journals and I can't find anything because it is fragmented and I basically have been writing on whatever I can find, good for free writing, bad for blogging when I need to find them to type them in (I know good/bad are judgements, I'm okay with that in this setting).
So I got back to the idea that I wrote about last week and will try a rewrite here (since I'll be damned if I can find the notebook it is in).
I began thinking about balance and what it takes. I say in my yoga classes that balance is 85% mind, 15% body and of the body, most of that is foundation. So physically speaking we work to ground ourselves through the three corners of the feet, with a soft bend in the need, toes lifted activating that mid-body time, then we draw in and up through the core (or belly area), then we express (i.e. lift into half moon, warrior 3, tree or whatever the asana).
So thinking about this more having to do with the rest of my life I tend to think about: 1 what is my foundation? 2 Where is my strength? 3 How do I share this? So here are my answers to these questions.
1. My foundation is me, my family& friends, my support system, my healthy diet, and my knowledge of self.
2. My strength is also me, my exercise, yoga, running, Pilates and all the other crazy stuff I do (kick boxing sometimes too), along with my knowledge of self and the human system
3. My expression, this too is yoga, my practice and my teaching, providing therapy, sharing my perspective, blogging, teaching SW and all other means of my sharing of knowledge and self.
My expression is built on my foundation and my strength. If I do not take care of myself, if I am not truly connected with me I can not help guide or teach others on their journeys which what I get paid to do. Without this foundation, this balance, I am of no use to me, my family and friends or my clients/students!
Think about it what is your foundation, strength and expression? What is your gift?
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