Balance Unexplained

All week I have strived to bring some sense of Balance into my life. The more I try the more I feel challenged. So I guess my message today is maybe as you work on trying to bring balance into your life, it’s important to be kind to yourself as things in life become complicated.

Each day I start my day off at 4:00 am. I have a morning practice that keeps me grounded. This includes reading e-mail, reviewing my tasks for the day, organizing my thoughts, taking care of Savannah, getting her ready for the day, reading scriptures with her and having family prayer, getting her off to school, etc. As soon as Savannah is off to school, I go on a 30 minute brisk walk and then I come home and take time to write in my journal, spending time in prayer, meditation, self-healing with Reiki and Crystal Healing and spend time with affirmations and then get cleaned up for the day. I also take some time to make a little protein shake for my sweetheart and see him off to work. As I do all of this, I feel centered. I feel like my day is off to a good start and that whatever comes my way I will be able to handle.

This past week, because of one thing or another, my morning routine has been interrupted by THINGS. As I’m sure everyone is aware, things in life happen and we just have to deal with them. But what happens when those things start getting in the way of keeping us balanced?

After a whole week of interruptions, having days of uncontrolled chaos, dealing with things that were completely out of my control, I was completely out of balance, or so I thought

I am a Creative Energy Life Coach and I teach the people I coach Balance. I teach that we need to keep our lives balanced in four areas, Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, and Spiritually. Well, I can tell you I was spending a lot of time speaking to my Heavenly Father but it seemed like the other three areas all went by the wayside and as hard as I tried those things just seemed to go further and further in the hole.

So what do we do at that point in time?

Well, it occurred to me last night as I was coaching one of my sweet mentees, that sometimes life throws you lemons and you really just have to do what you can to make lemonade… All you can do is the best you can do. You can start your day out the best you can – planned as you have planned it. You set time in your schedule to do something to keep your brain active. I know for me, as I was running around last week to all of the appointment my daughter had to attend, I kept a word search book in my purse and I worked in that…  That kept my brain Mentally Active. Emotionally, I tried my very hardest to look on the bright side and find the positives of why my daughter had ended up in the hospital. Amazingly enough I did find many positives. We were able to find a diagnosis for Savannah and now know how to treat her seizures and I was able to network with many doctors and specialists about BrainBeHappy.com . In the Spiritual aspect of things, I did become closer to my Heavenly Father through the trials that were put in my path. Every day I tried to keep myself hydrated, and get some type of exercise and I tried to eat as healthy as possible (although it was a little difficult being away from home as much as I was). In the Physical area, I tried. I may not have been as successful in this area as the others, but at least I tried. 

So looking back, did my life seem balanced? NO! Definitely not at the time, and definitely at the end of the week I did a little beating up of myself. Do I feel like I achieved the things I set out to do? NO! But did life happen the way that Heavenly Father wanted it to happen? YES! Sometimes Heavenly Father has different plans for us and sometimes we don’t understand what those plans are and why we’re going through what it is that we’re going through and sometimes it takes quite a while before we understand, but it’s important for us to understand that the Balancing Act that is HIS Balancing Act makes much more sense than the one we have in mind for ourselves.

So my message today is let go, let God. He is in control. You’re not! These feelings of frustration and pain will subside and you will be able to get back to your life of normalcy when it’s time for normalcy as you see it. This too shall pass!

Many hugs and lots of love,

Cathleen