How To Achieve Balance In Life
It does not begin with two — it begins with One
We use the word balance constantly without a full realization of its meaning.
We talk about work-life balance, mental balance, emotional balance — as if balance only means managing two separate, divided things and keeping them equal.
Like a boy and a girl on a seesaw.
This is how most people understand balance.
But this is only one expression of it — and a limited one at that.
Balance actually has three expressions.
But in today’s article, I want to focus on one that is often overlooked, yet far more powerful than the others:
Unity.
First, An Important Concept to Understand
When most people think or hear the word balance, they imagine two opposing things or forces being brought into a 50/50 equality with one another.
But true balance does not begin with two.
It begins with One.
A unified, undivided center, from which two seemingly opposite expressions of that One emerge into two separate individual — Ones.
Without that center, there can be no balance.
It is the FULCRUM which both levers of the seesaw extend out from.
Universal MIND is that center; it is the fulcrum.
THOUGHT is the lever which extends from the fulcrum of MIND.
The Purpose of Mind is to think. We all know this intuitively.
But what does Mind think?
Universal Mind knows and thinks its one whole IDEA — CREATION ITSELF — and takes apart its One IDEA and seemingly divides it into an infinite amount of separate individual ideas — which becomes our created universe.
That might sound confusing, but it actually isn’t.
Let me explain it this way: You understand the concept - or the IDEA - of a fiction book, for example.
You understand that concept as a whole — it is easily understandable.
That conceptual IDEA of a fiction book, however, has an infinite amount of individual expressions — Harry Potter, Treasure Island, Moby Dick, etc.
Similarly, the IDEA of mankind has an infinite amount of possible expressions — 8.3 billion of which are currently inhabiting this planet, all with two eyes, arms, legs etc.
— but no one looking exactly alike.
So What Does This Have To Do With You?
Lets think for a bit. What is it that you, I, or anyone else on the planet does from the time they wake, until the time they go to bed?
From the moment we wake, we are always trying to fulfil some desire, be it physical or mental.
In order to fulfil our desire we must come up with an Idea for how to do so.
Every thought and action you take begins the same way:
With an IDEA — extended from desire.
This is the rhythmic structure of everything you do or create:
The only difference is the element of time — and how big one’s Idea is.
The idea of washing one’s hands can be fulfilled in a very short period of time.
The idea of a fully constructed building will take much more time.
We will see why in a bit.
Unity IS Balance
Unity is a fundamental quality of balance which is often overlooked or simply misunderstood.
Lets apply our Idea → Thought → Action cycle to the original example I gave of the fulcrum and lever in order to construct a building.
Instead of a seesaw extending from its fulcrum, lets imagine two circles extending from a center.
The IDEA of our fully constructed building is that center.
Action is one circle.
Thought is the other.
The fulfilment of any Idea requires a UNITY of thought and action.
A building is made of bricks, and each brick must be placed perfectly so that each brick placed afterwards may be placed perfectly — if not the structure will become unbalanced and topple.
With that idea in mind, we start the construction of our building.
We think about placing our first brick as perfectly as we can and then take the actual action of placing the brick.
In order to place that brick perfectly, our action of placing it must perfectly mirror our thought of placing it.
If our action PERFECTLY MIRRORS its thought, then we have attained UNITY — like the two circles of a Ven Diagram merging into one.
Now we repeat the Idea → Thought → Action cycle again and again, brick by brick and we gradually see the WHOLE structure of our original conceptual IDEA begin to emerge.
This process continues until the fully finished building appears before us.
When this happens our fully manifested building lies before us.
In other words, we have given the spiritual form of our idea a material body by manifesting it through action.
The structure is either balanced or unbalanced according to how we have unified our THOUGHTS with our ACTIONS in accordance with our IDEA.
“Desire ye what ye will, and behold, it standeth before thee. Throughout the aeons it has been thine without thy knowing, e’en though thou has but just asked for it.
Sit thou not and ask, acting not, for unless thou reach out for thy desire it shall not walk thy way to thee, unaided by thy strong arms.
— Walter Russell, The Divine Iliad
It is impossible, however, to produce perfection, as we have come to think of the term.
All products of idea which we manifest materially have a residue of unbalance.
Talk to any composer, painter or film maker and they will always tell you that the immortal IDEA they had was always infinitely more perfect than the expression they were able to create was — they always could have done a bit more.
Perfection, therefore, is not in the product which was created, but in the CAUSE from which it came — the IDEA.
Simply stated, CAUSE is perfect, but its EFFECT is imperfectly worked out.
Why?
Because CAUSE is eternal — the IDEA is eternal because it is at rest in the equilibrium from which it came.
The stone and metal we use to give the IDEA a body will, in time, return to the earth from which it came through erosion and decay — but the IDEA of it will forever remain.
Even the The Great Pyramid of Egypt will one day return back to the earth.
Back to unbalance…
What Causes Unbalance or Disunity?
Unbalance is caused when:
our thought forms don’t mirror its IDEA
or
our actions don’t mirror our thoughts
There are many reasons for this, some within our control and some outside of our control.
Perhaps the project you worked on at work didn’t turn out the way you wanted because you didn’t sleep the night before because you had too many drinks.
You attempted to draw a beautiful picture from an idea you had, but lack the understanding of the techniques of linear and aerial perspective.
Maybe while writing the latest chapter in your novel the power goes out but you forgot to save it.
Doubts, fears and all other negative thoughts will also cause unbalance — sometimes to the point of never even beginning to start in the first place.
What This Means Moving Forward
Balanced-unity is something you maintain moment to moment.
It is maintained by ensuring that your ACTIONS mirror your THOUGHTS and your THOUGHTS mirror your IDEA — this is unity.
Every moment of your day presents you with an opportunity for making your dreams a reality.
A moment-to-moment awareness of your thoughts and actions as you reach toward the Ideas you wish to create enables you to correct imbalances as they arise—before they prevent the fulfilment of your desire.
Warmly,
Michael R. Post, Creator of Beyond the Cosmic Veil
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