Balance

Balance is something I don't have a lot of.
I wonder if there is really anyone who has found a way to have a perfect balance in their life.
I doubt it.
I think that there are definitely people who have achieved a higher level of balance than others but I would bet that we all struggle with it.
I planned on writing everyday for 30 days no matter what. I must say that doing that is not very realistic. Once again, my lack of balance rears its ugly head.
My lack of balance has kept me from doing so many things because of fear and frustration of what I would see as failure. For example, I want to workout 6 days a week.
Realistic?
So I start on day one, day two, day three, day four, and now I am feeling goooood. I am so proud of myself. Day five comes and I am stuck in the office all day and then I have to go drive Michayla around, go grocery shopping, make dinner and I just drank a glass of wine. Gym...what gym?
Do I get up and go the next day? The answer is sadly no. Why, you might ask.
I blew it.
I "failed"
I could give you example after example of ways I do this to myself.
I have lived my life by all these rules that others have imposed upon me or that I have set upon myself. None of these rules have any balance in them whatsoever.
So I have set out in this new way of living. The thing I have been craving the most is balance.
I am eating 85% raw, living food. I have also fallen of the wagon and had some champagne and a few pieces of grilled chicken. **GASP**
But you know what? I started all over the very next day and didn't even really regret my indulgences.
I am losing weight and gaining perspective. I am shedding bad habits and grabbing hold of optimism. I have thrown out rules and have embraced clarity. I am eating raw, living, healthy, brightly colored food and learning balance.
Tomorrow will be the end of two weeks of eating mostly raw, living, organic food and drinking delicious green drinks. I feel fabulous! I am still waiting for that wake up early and ready to go feeling! I am hoping for that along with balance. :-)
Today I bought a book by one of my favorite authors, Being in Balance by Dr. Wayne Dyer and I thought I would share a quote from the book that really hit home with me.
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and you hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
That also sounds a lot like the verse in the Bible, As a man thinks in his heart, so he is. Proverbs 23:7
I am thinking that I am achieving balance and becoming a much healthier person physically, spiritually and emotionally.
YEY ME!!!!