My balanced intention, this morning, is to create a blog post with balance.
I wish to balance
- light and dark,
- courage and fear,
- joy and sadness,
- reality and dreams,
- rest and movement,
- routine and spontaneity,
- solutions and problems,
- contentment and exploration,
- active and passive,
- structure and play,
- caring and not caring,
- my needs and the needs of others,
- yin and yang,
- beginner’s mind and hard-won wisdom,
- thoughts and feelings,
- facts and intuition,
- social connections and time alone,
- health and illness,
- the past and the future,
- the here and the now,
- talking and listening,
- awareness and distraction,
- the new and the familiar,
- engagement and escape,
- sense and nonsense,
- patience and impatience,
- humor and seriousness,
- the important and the trivial,
- work and time off,
- sweet and sour,
- trust and caution,
- trying and letting go,
- noise and silence,
- sun and clouds,
- day and night,
- comfort and discomfort,
- hot and cold,
- so on and etc.
That’s a lot to balance! Let’s see if my photos from yesterday will help.
What would you choose to balance in your life?
Here‘s my favorite singing group — Take 6 — in Paris, balancing their beautiful voices in a song balancing smiles and sadness:
I’m balancing that performance of “Smile” with a differently balanced one from Take 6’s live album Tonight (balancing here on YouTube):
I hope you balance my thoughts and feelings about balance with yours, in a comment below.
I feel more balanced when I express gratitude. Thanks to all those who helped me create this balanced and balancing post and to you — of course! — for the balance you bring, here and now.