Succeed Higher Through Balance (Part 2)

Living in the now, with a focus on making the best of it, frees you from attachment to results beyond your control, which means that it frees you from unbalance and the chaos of unbalance living. Unbalanced people under-perform and over-react to just about everything. Even the tiniest problems seem to matter too much to them. An unbalanced life means you feel like you have too much to do or not enough to do. You feel like everyone wants a piece of you or that no one really wants anything to do with you. An unbalanced life means that you do not take the time to take care of yourself, or that you focus too exclusively on your interests to the point of selfishness.

One important element of unbalance to be aware of is the element of projection. The unbalanced person sees the world as his problem because everything that happens seems to hurt so much. What he fails to realize is that his pain derives from his unbalanced view, his overblown reactions or his extremely repressed reactions to what happens. Look for projection happening with you. What you seek you will find. When you fully awaken to the level of awareness that reveals your projection you have broken the chains of the principle habit responsible for unbalanced living: the habit of unconscious living.

An unbalanced, chaotic life attracts unbalanced, chaotic participants eager to join you in generating more problems. It is a deeply unhappy life, one filled with too much urgency or boredom or both. A chaotic life lacks love because love can only deeply blossom from the heart of a balanced person. Unbalanced living assaults one with crises and conflicts. Relationships fall apart, careers unravel, health decays, attitudes deteriorate under the influence of unbalance. You feel out of control and dependent upon other people and circumstances because only in balance can you adequately take care of yourself. You fearfully react to problems instead of confidently produce the conditions you want. You live in unbalance if you live in fear instead of faith, in emotional tumult instead of peace, in mental confusion instead of clarity. Your dreams go unrealized when you live out of balance because when you live in a state of balance you have the feeling that your dreams for your life are coming true.

Rely upon balance and on the fulfillment of your higher potential in balance. Remaining calm is not enough. To produce a life that feels filled with purpose you have to give yourself daily to your growth into your greater potential. No one knows the limitations on your abilities. Whatever gifts or talents you possess can be developed endlessly. As you grow more self-aware, you can recognize your weaknesses and choose to outgrow them. While no one person can do it all, recognizing your weaknesses and developing your strengths lets you find and attract individuals who can help you, who have the strengths that you need.

One of the most important balance-skills to develop is the skill of maintaining balance in your personal and professional relationships. Becoming overly dependent upon another person or too independent and unreliable guarantees the demise of that relationship. If you become too needy or too aloof, too controlling or too uninvolved, you send your partner packing. Face your unbalances in relationships. That constitutes the first step to overcoming them. Then, commit yourself to developing the strength compassionate self-reliance and balanced involvement. Self-reliance is the foundation of balance. As long as you feel too weak or inadequate to make it on your own you overly depend upon and demand help from others. The way to develop self-reliance is through take the leap into striking out on your own. Do what is right without compromising your values. Don't prostitute yourself for help or for assistance. Do not degrade yourself in any way for another's support. You will find that taking the leap and relying on what you believe in sees you through, and that depending too much on others always lets you down. A balanced life means that you give the right measure of attention, time and energy to all departments of your life. The most important department is self-knowledge. You have to spend enough time getting to know yourself in order to discover what you really want to do with your life and what you actually are doing with your life. From self-awareness you receive all of the guidance that you need.

Every moment your inner being sends you signals prompting you to balance. Pay attention to this always. If you let your circumstances dictate your actions and reactions you lose your balance and create chaos. Stop, relax, and "look" within for the guidance that leads you along a balanced course of action toward success.

In balance, you perform at your peak level and thereby produce the very best results. The more attuned you remain to how you feel, the more you pay attention to your deep inner prompting, the more accurately you will be guided to success through balance for a healthier, happier life.