Conversations lately often seem to include the topic of balance or, more precisely, the topic of imbalance. Those may not be the actual words used. Sometimes the phrase is “feeling off,” “just not myself,” or “out of sorts.” Can you relate?

Balance means that different or even opposing elements are equal or proportional. We might currently find it more difficult than usual to attain balance because so many areas of our lives have been thrown off-kilter. The impacts are wide-spread and possibly deeper than we realize. It is imperative for our well-being, then, to find ways of bringing balance back to ourselves.

If you perform an on-line search of the word balance you’ll be presented with article after article about Work - Life balance. This duo is certainly relevant, but not all-encompassing. How about the balance of:

• Giving - Receiving

• Highs - Lows

• Push - Pull

• Yin - Yang

• Vulnerable - Protected

• Pros - Cons

• Precaution - Risk

• Grounding - Transcending

• Physical - Emotional - Mental - Spiritual

Where do you struggle to find or maintain balance? One of the above? Two? More? All of them? Others? My answer is that it depends on the moment, and I expect that is true for many others. Sometimes I feel that I’m giving more than receiving, but the next moment I am inundated with love and goodness from others. Receiving positivity gives me a ‘high’ which plummets to a ‘low’ if I make the mistake of reading too much news. I might feel spiritually balanced but emotionally ‘off.’ Or mentally imbalanced while physically ‘sound.’ Once again I ask, “Can you relate?”

I strongly encourage you to take a few minutes each day at a time of your choosing to sit quietly by yourself - with yourself. Take a few deep breaths. Think about where you might have struggled a bit lately - where you do not currently feel in balance. Scan your body for aches and pains, your mind for excessive chatter, your emotions for anything unsettled, and then ask yourself what occurred that might be causing these results. The answers will arise if you allow them. Then release the thoughts, find acceptance where possible, allow forgiveness where necessary, ground deeply, and allow love to flow freely inward to yourself and outward to others. Feel yourself calm and relax as balance begins to return. Let it happen in its own time. The results just might surprise you.