Let There be Balance

It’s Friday. The end of a long week, the beginning of a short weekend, the possibilities are endless……Today I am grateful for the ability to practice living in the moment. It is never effortless but it does get easier with practice. I’ve begun to pay attention to my footsteps, my breath, the feelings in my physical body and this seems to keep me in the present. I’ve lived so much of my life in my head, my thoughts, my fears, my dreams, my regrets and this has taken me away from the present moment. I don’t know where I picked up the notion that the physical experience was not important, maybe I created that idea from always searching for the spiritual or higher level of experience. However, we are here in the physical for a reason and to ignore that is not working toward my highest good with all of my resources. It takes the mental, spiritual, emotional and physical experience to fully live where I am in this moment. It always comes back to balance. Funny enough, I was born a Libra which is the scales. I’ve often thought that we are the signs we are born into but someone shared the idea that we are born to learn those attributes under the sign we are born into. This explains why I’m always striving to stay balanced and find it extremely difficult. I’m either 100% into something or not at all. When I’m 100% into something, this leaves 0% for anything else therefore, no balance whatsoever. May the rest of this Friday and the upcoming weekend present me with opportunities to remember to find balance.