1 post tagged “balance”

What an interesting time it is for me right now, so full of blessings and fascinating insights (to me anyway).  My two biggest New Year's Resolutions were to have a real live in person social life rather than just emailing people while huddled up at the computer, and to reach out to my social network and let it be known that I was available for creative marketing and p.r. projects and other interesting things in order to find projects I really loved to work on, and of course, increase my prosperity.

So it's been really wonderful that both have been unfolding so gracefully in my life, in quite amazing ways.  I just got home from a local "Green Drinks" meet up and met some great people, Sunday I'm

To be sure I still have the tendency to think I have to work work work all the time, so I am doing my best to be open to what a healthy balance really means to me right now.  And right now that means that I'm staying focused on how I feel - do I want to stretch, meditate, eat a delicious meal etc. etc. rather than write another article, blog, email, etc., or am I "in flow" with the work and want to keep going?

Nuance and intention feel so important right now.  I am constantly seeing how coming from ego puts my guard up and disallows me to connect with another's humanity.  If, instead, I come from kindness so often something shifts, and even the most annoying situation eases a bit, or radically, and I realize the person who originally acted in a way that brought my hackles up is just tired and frightened and worried - like the rest of us.

At least those of us who haven't reach full enlightenment yet - which would certainly be me.

But oh it's lovely to feel so much happiness, and moments of real magic and wonder.   To relax into what is right now.