I just started the 10-pack series on Balance in my Headspace-app, and it started off with Andy talking about what balance is to him. I really enjoyed what he said, even though I don’t remember it verbatim. So I’ll just try to use my own words, because I want to share this.
Balance doesn’t mean level, even, a straight line without up’s and down’s. No, that’s not what balance is to me.
Balance, to me, means riding the roller coaster that is life, with all the up’s and down’s, speed changes, bumps and the occasional stop, without getting swept off my feet.
Balance means experiencing my high’s fully, without believing that it’s only when I am high that I can be happy and grateful.
Balance means experiencing my low’s fully, without believing that it’s impossible to be happy and grateful when I am low.
Balance means being ok with, and accepting, what is, in the moment, feeling it, experiencing it, being fully there.
Balance means laughing my head off, or crying my heart out, with the knowing that the strong emotion will pass, in time, however long or short. Being able to be 100% in the feeling, while at the same time being aware that it’s a passing feeling.
There is something very dual in it for me, because it’s both being inside myself, feeling and experiencing fully, while simultaneously being aware of what I am feeling and experiencing, as if I have also taken a step outside myself, being able to bear witness upon myself and my experience.
It’s as if I am being me, but also a fly on the wall looking at me. *haha* I promise I did not see that analogy coming, but now that it’s here, I like it. Because it explains my experience quite well. I’m me, but also the fly on the wall.
Have you ever felt like that?


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Walking along the beautiful coastline of Vejbystrand just before New Years I listened to the most
Natten till igår låg jag sömnlös. Läste ut en bok, låg och vilade och slumrade säkert till emellanåt, men långt från mina åtta timmars sömn, det kan jag garantera. Och det var inga problem det. Jag stressar inte upp mig längre när jag har en sådan här natt. Det hjälper så klart att jag fortfarande har julledigt och inte har något inbokat som jag vill prestera på topp för.
Isn’t that really just absurd? Letting someone else, whose behaviour and action, whose words and reactions, you cannot in any way control or even influence, be the determining factor for your behaviour and action, your words and reactions? It just doesn’t make sense to me anymore. And I guess, giggling a little to myself now that I think about it, that it never did make sense, but I just never thought to question it. It was the way I believed the world was, outside/in, and now that I know that it’s inside/out, there is no sense to it whatsoever.
But now it’s 2015 and a new year is here (given that year as such is just a man-made construct, just like the concept of time). Ahead lies many moments of Now, and my only resolve for 2015 is rooted in the word EXPANSION.