What I believe.

I firmly believe that the more each of us can find balance within ourselves and our lives, the better we will be at holding a point of calm on our particular place on the web of life. Balance isn’t just about being able to stand on one or both feet without falling down. Although after an introductory study of Aikido, I realized how many elements are involved in doing just that.
When my mind is scattered or problem-oriented, I’m not in my body enough to be able to stand in one place without falling over or being pushed over by a stiff wind or someone breezing past. When my heart is squeezed tight or overflowing in someone else’s direction, I don’t have enough juice for myself to convert into personal stability. This is also true for my emotional state, my level of ‘busyness, acceptance/rejection of love, attention, compassion, etc. For many events, fears, plus angers and frustrations pull me away from being in the moment and being able to stand in relaxed readiness for my own life.
Of all my relationships, I have a choice, each time I approach them, to be in awareness of them and myself so as to be open in that moment to the joy of being alive.
This time of reflection I spend has become important for me to find balance within all the myriad influences of this one life of mine.
As I’ve reflected and written over the past 20 years, a story has emerged that has become a series of four books, now named, The Sacred Bundle Series. Where the intertwining stories will be completed with the fourth book, my reflections on seeking balance will never be done until I pass away. This is the theme, it seems, of my life: finding balance in all my relationships.
So the imprinting of thoughts here in this blog are offered as my work in trying to step every day and in every moment into that place of balance where I can do no harm. Join me in seeking to center ourselves so we may strongly maintain our point of contact on the web of life no matter what’s happening to fray its connectivity on another part of our Earth.