Briefly, About Balance In Life
The Lanzarote Sessions - Series 8 Session 16
THE MESSAGE
Transcribed on 25th December 2024 @ 1:30 pm
We heard your request. You would like me talk to you about balance. That is a big topic! Simple rules, complicated by action.
Before I say a few words, I’m aware this is your last session with us before you return to your home far away. May I say what a pleasure it has been for us to work with you. Watching our words translate to print is quite something. Your success is assured and we hope you continue with it.
Now then, balance. Let me first define what that means and why it is so hard to achieve. Balance really entails everything in proportion. Moderated and equal to all other influences. You see, simple to define, yet difficult for people to Put into action.
People have this varying issue with attention span. When something is uninteresting it become a drudge. The mind loses focus more easily and distractions rule. Maybe they find there is something more interesting to do and they switch focus.
Yes, I’m describing you as well, I know. You see, this is where balance runs wrong. Balance involves discipline, focus and determination, no matter what the task is.
But the opposite balance is also a problem. When something is enjoyable to do and the person devotes too much attention to it, the balance goes wrong again.
You, my friend, have often talked in your words about balance, yet you are not practising what you preach. Balance, as I said, involves a determined discipline. To share the time available across all that is to be done. That is balance.
Balance is required in other aspects of life too. How much one needs to eat and drink. How much is to be spend with caring for the body. Sleep, rest, work and play. Nothing is so important in life that it should be allowed to dominate. That is not balance, that is obsession, and obsession is dangerous and unhealthy.
Eat enough, no more. Drink enough, no more, sleep, work, play, relax enough, but no more.
The man or woman that lives a balanced life is rich, often healthy, and lacking unachievable desires. But to achieve that status takes consistent work. A realisation that nothing is so important that it should throw your tender balance.
You know how much more energy it takes to walk with a limp, or a tight-fitting shoe. Life is the same. Solve the issue that effects the balance and maintain it every day.
Have I made sense this day? Have I given you some food for thought? Good. Balance is a simple process. Maintaining it in action is where the focus should be.
You’ll have a safe trip home and we look forward to when we are reunited for the purpose of these messages.
God bless you.
Goodbye.
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