Finding Your Balance in Tumultuous Times

I want to write just a little bit about "tumultuous times" and then more about "finding your balance." An important part of "balance" for me is noticing the balance of the quality and quantity of my attention to subjects. So, I give less attention to "tumultuous times" and more to "finding your balance."

Tumultuous Times

So many people are focused on the economy and related subjects with negative perceptions. Without realizing it, they're creating a larger space for more economic-related challenges. Ideas (whether expressed or not) about how bad the economy is, expand the bad economy -- or at least, their experience of the economy as being bad.

Giving attention to the war in Iraq expands the war in Iraq. Chatting with your friends about an unhappy relationship expands the unhappy relationship. When your attention is on what you don't want, you are drawing more of that to you.

Clearly, there are times to talk and think about those things that you don't like and don't want. HOW and HOW MUCH you give your attention to those subjects are all-important. Are you giving more attention to the problem or to the solution? Are you constantly checking your state of balance or feeling yourself slide down into a pit? Do you even know when you've dropped into a pit of despair?

Television, Internet, and technology generally all add to the stress and feelings of overwhelm at this time. They will all keep expanding, so the key is to find your own balance in the midst of this vast and expanding creativity.

Finding Your Balance

Finding your balance is your responsibility. No one else can do that for you, nor is anyone else responsible for your imbalance. You probably already know this, at least intellectually. Being surrounded by reminders of perceptions of tumultuous times, this can be a challenge to remember.

So, if you can start with the realization of self-responsibility without blaming yourself, you're in a stable starting place. So, right where you are, breathe and relax.

If you're stressed, acknowledge that, without embellishments. If you're angry, you're angry. If you're overwhelmed, give your feelings that name. In other words, don't make a big deal of where you are when it's uncomfortable, just notice and give the place and/or the feeling a name.

Consider that where you are and how you're feeling about where you are is a "point on a map" or "current condition." It's not a permanent, constant, fixed place -- it's a launching pad.

How do you want to feel about where you want to be?

Read the above question multiple times if you need. It's actually a question that's worthy of asking yourself hundreds of times each day. So, here it is again ...

How do you want to feel about where you want to be?

So, if you want to feel confident about your financial resources, acknowledge that to yourself. If you want to be happy about your circumstances or a specific situation, identify and claim that. If you want to feel more relaxed more often, embrace that desire.

Don't get hung up on not being able to feel what you want to feel or not being where you want to be. Just pinpoint the place and feeling, and give it/them a name.

These are the end points for your balancing act. It's important to be FACING the place you want to be as much a possible, because when you move, you'll be moving toward where you want to be. Remember, also -- and this is so important -- to feel the feeling you want to feel, as often as you can, while you are on your journey to where you want to be.

Even I Forget

It's easy to forget to balance yourself. You'll find it more helpful to remember to be intolerant of feeling out of balance, rather than thinking you'll never be out of balance. You'll be out of balance from time to time, this I guarantee you. It is life. You're not always supposed to be in the same place. Life requires movement.

I have to remind myself to re-balance. This morning I had to resolve a technology problem. I persevered to get it resolved, including speaking with multiple inept persons. By 8 am, I had wasted an hour of my time. How did I re-balance? I did my favorite multi-tasking activities: I meditated in the hot tub.

I could have chosen another way to re-balance. The activity is not as important as the mindset. The mindset is to re-balance, to find my center.

And So back to You with a Question

What helps you to find your balance in tumultuous times?

Finding your balance in tumultuous times requires you to be attentive to where you are placing your attention. After understanding that, many different techniques can help you to find your balance again and again.

If you want to experience these dynamics for finding your balance, participate in Jeanie Marshall's TeleSeminar, "How to Find Your Center in the Midst of Chaos." Details on her Personal Development Teleseminars are at http://www.empowering-personal-development.com/teleseminars.html along with other information about Jeanie and her company, Marshall House.

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