| Relaxation Tip of the Week
Service
We all know how good we feel when we do something to help others. Each time we do, we
tap the energy of love and compassion that is fundamental to life.
Highly change-resilient people view service as their true mission in life,
and hold material wealth and success as secondary to helping others. They have a strong
sense of belonging and understand the value of nurturing relationships with family,
friends, coworkers, and community.
Many people have discovered that making time in their lives to be of service to others
provides a quality of joy and satisfaction that is deeply renewing. We
continue to learn more and more about balance by realizing that in serving the needs of
others from a selfless place of caring and connectedness, many of our own deepest needs
can also be fulfilled.
(from Seven
Principles for Living in Balance, by Joel Levey and Michelle Levey)
In Search of Balance
by Bryan Brewer, Producer, Self-Guided.com
Here in the Pacific Northwest part of the United States we have been enjoying
spectacularly beautiful summer weather. It has been sunny and warm with virtually no rain
for months.
But as I bask in the sun, a little voice in the back of my head reminds that it
won’t last forever. The gray, damp days of winter will be here before long. It’s
a simple concept of balance between summer and winter.
In their book Living in Balance, Joel & Michelle Levey describe this
concept:
"In search of balance, it is
helpful to think of everything--every quality, action, or object--as inseparable from its
opposite: male as inseparable from female; night and day; inside and outside. No matter
how much you might like to have only the positives in life--freedom, peace, love--if you
are seeking that static state, you will always be disappointed. For every thing also
contains its opposite and both sides must be balanced: form and space, creativity and
receptivity, activity and rest, growth and decay, manifest creation and the unmanifest
source of all creation."
"The good news is that, as your sense of balance grows, you'll find it easier to
integrate the other side, ‘the negatives,’ into your life; you’ll discover
the clarity in the midst of confusion, the stillness at the center of motion, and the love
that waits behind fear and anger. If you can learn to dance with the innumerable paradoxes
of your life while staying anchored in an extraordinary suppleness and flexibility, you
will create the stability necessary to actually find balance in your life."
I hope you will appreciate the exquisite balance already
present in all of life and embrace the opposites on your path.
Bryan Brewer
Producer
Self-Guided.com
bryanb@self-guided.com
Quote of the Week
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
-– George Santayana
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