GRAB A BALANCE IN YOUR LIFE

This blogger had an academic discussion with a friend. Not what you would carry out on a normal day I would say. Not that what he told me was anything ground shattering, only that it was what I knew all along, but hadn’t got the words to put it down.

Basically what is BALANCE? According to the Chinese, it’s a good condition and in this case, wholesome good condition. It covers three areas:

Psychology: This is the mental side of well being that controls all aspects of our lives.

Physiology: Encompasses the bodily functions and their status.

Social: With this, we are able to interact with other people if the above two are in optimum state.

Psychology: Without wanting to get into murky waters of this topic, the simple rule here is that ‘we are what we think we are’. PERIOD! Think you are poor……… Hell yes you are! Think you are rich, you guessed it right………….. Damn well you are! In other words, we are an expression of what we think. As we think, so are we!

Physiological: Our bodies will only carry us as far as we take care of them. We need to eat well and exercise as well. It’s the only way to make our body function optimally. The key word here is OPTIMUM. Not ‘well’.


Socially: We can only interact with our fellow species if our above two status are in, I repeat, OPTIMUM state. Only then are we able to think where our next meal will come from, what to eat, cloth etc. Remember that we can’t socialize when we are in a state of sickness.

What this tell us is that we are all looking for a status called ‘The Vital Balance’’. It’s that state in which we operate in clarity, knowing what we want and how to go about getting what we want.

I rest my case.