Are you "really" Balanced and Centered

Are you “really”
Balanced & Centered

People speak of Balance of Power
I tell you now,
“Balance is Power”

Are you really mentally, physically and emotionally simultaneously developed synergistic and sound?

Balanced means you have achieved an equilibrium within yourself, developed physically, intelligently and those together emotionally. Your head, heart and hips must all work and work well within you, together. This is not an “or” option. Most people achieve development in one or at best two. Self mastery “Balance” happens only when you a have developed, balanced the three, they work well together within you and you can remain balanced in your interactions with the world and those in it. It takes work to develop your total capacity.

Centered means you neither go too far one way or the other.
It is easy to be centered in a small circle.

It is easy to partially develop one. What you want is to be:

Wise and intelligent. Not so smart you are dumb
Or

Sexy, beautiful, strong and attractive. Have a body and know how to use it!
Or

Loving, empathetic, compassionate, passionate. Not so sweet they are annoying.


Few are two. Very, very, very few, fully have all three. Fewer than that can get them to actually “work” together in “one” person. Oh yeah, “Happy and Funny too!”

People usually choose to develop or another then vehemently defend that strength by criticizing the aspects developed by others.

You know, “Bigger the body, the smaller the brain.” and vice versa. Full pockets, empty heart.

A quote on the perils of imbalance.

"At times our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them."


More on Being Balanced

Most people now a day hear the buzz word “balanced”, but what does it mean? Most people will say calm and relaxed. They imagine some kind of oriental master sitting on a pillow somewhere saying “om”. They think of someone sitting in the Lotus position or someone doing Yoga in cozy clean room. A quick heads up! The Lotus grows out of the mud not out of the mat!

This is "not" balance to those in the East. One of my mentors was a doctor from India. He wondered what it was people "thought" they were doing when they did the postures and asanas and what they think they will accomplish from it other than "appearing" peaceful. I have lived in China and Japan for years and my friends, some of whom are monks laugh at the western misinterpretation of balance. In Japan, they sent the monks to downtown Tokyo during rush hour with begging bowls. Sometimes people put money in. Sometimes people took money out. The monks bowed to both. The monks in China practiced kung fu, not for belts, there are no belts anywhere in China for this. They didn't practice as a method so much to fight others but, to see themselves and their spirit in the face of adversity much like you face in daily life. To them, “Practice is the goal!” The passion, peace, patience, perseverance and skills you develop as a by product of the training is what makes life easier.

If you are sitting on a rock or a pillow listening to a river, a stream or the ocean watching butterflies float by, who couldn’t or wouldn’t be relaxed? If you are sitting in a room, sometimes immaculately clean and silent, how can that not calm you? That is at best relief. Whatever problems you brough to the pillow in your head, you may dissipate there. THe purpose of your practice is not relief, it is prevention and cure. If you are balanced, the pillow is to move forward toward more heaven not to constantly bring you back from hell.

They don’t send you to Club Med or Canyon Ranch to prepare you for Iraq or Vietnam though do they? What a shock to the system that would be.

Unless your name is Robinson Crusoe or Wilson, you will most likely have to interact with others. Sartre said “Hell is other people!” Balance is Heaven. If you are imbalanced or easily unbalanced then other people will be the cause of your imbalance. They will be the catalyst, the trigger, but not the “reason” you experience your imbalance. That will occur because you were not prepared.

To truly be ready for life, love or the war that is now just our daily lives you have got to be ready mentally, emotionally and physically. If you lack in any of those areas, life will be difficult.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Are you ready for life and love? Are you prepared? Are you “balanced” enough to deal with what each brings? If so, realize that balancing yourself is difficult enough. When you add another, the blessings and burdens, their gifts and their garbage, their trash and their treasure, you will find out. As Rumi says, “Love comes with a knife, nor some shy request.” Life also, unlike a movie doesn’t always allow for a second take.