Secrets To A Balanced Life - Part I

Part I – Exploring Balance Between Our Spiritual-Physical Self

Painting by Sharique Farooqi

True balance of our physical and spiritual self requires

that we dance equally between both worlds.

On the first day of November, as the sun burned away the morning fog, I glanced out the window into the woodland area behind my home, and spotted four magnificent spider webs suspended in open space between two bushes. Nature's tapestries glistened with dew like threads of diamonds and became a silent message, reminding me that we are the weavers of our day to day lives where the spiritual-physical and feminine-masculine aspects in each one of us continually interlace, searching for patterns of balance in life.

The word balance is so commonly used. If we were to explore the concept of balance for humanity, what would it contain? We can view the striving for balance as a constant evolving dance between the duel, yet matching combinations of the feminine-masculine and the spiritual-physical. When we think of balance, we can examine these four positions as the blueprints or foundation to our personal roadmap for how we can shape ourselves. Let’s refer to these two combinations as the ‘four pillars.”

When something is out of balance within the four pillars of humanity, the friction that’s created over time culminates in many forms of agitation.

As we look back through 2011 so far, we can see the striving for a higher level of awareness the world over intensifying and taking place at grass roots levels everywhere.

Living a balanced life is a continual process. It isn’t a destination of perfection or perpetual state of bliss and it isn’t exactly the same for each individual. Within the concept of balance we must always include the richness of diversity. Wouldn’t life be just awful if we were all the same and lived exactly the same way? We didn’t sign up for that!

So now, how have we been weaving our lives this year? How can we maximize our awareness in taking responsibility for creating and monitoring our own balance? In order to do so, we need to learn how to understand and work with these four pillars that make up every human being, and perhaps everything on earth.

For this article, we’ll first explore the spiritual-physical path combination.

Spiritual-Physical

In the simplest terms spiritual represents the intangible or unseen and physical represents what we can physically see and touch.

We place our greater attention in the physical realm, and practically so, as we’re here to express, manifest, and hopefully master creating in the physical world based on our talents and abilities – those spiritual gifts we are born with.

All inventions we create on earth, all forms of art which include writing and music, the culinary arts, clothing and jewelry design, technology, sports, agriculture, transportation, architecture, medicine and the physical sciences, originate from that higher spiritual place of imagination. Once we’ve created something, we can physically see it and interact with it. But the creation process begins first in the unseen spiritual realm where imagination and vision become the designs of our attention. We manifest those visions into the physical world as objects. Infinite objects!

The social sciences like philosophy, psychology, the unseen spiritual intuitive arts, and metaphysical abstract thought processes where we create not so much a physical object to use, as we reach for methods of living in the highest place of positive thought and awareness and where we explore and wrestle with understanding behaviors, transcendent experiences and feelings – those mental, emotional, and spiritual parts that separate us from being robotic.

The powerful unseen spiritual aspect within us is also our moral compass that guides us for good or ill in the physical world. We express values through our emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. We can see the effects with how we communicate in all forms of relationship.

Constantly growing and expanding into a higher spiritual awareness, we are coming to recognize, empathize, and honor the value of all things in life. We are perpetual seekers of universal truths.

We’re coming to understand that all things hold an intrinsic energy force driven to fulfill its value potential. An example in human evolution is recognizing that all people should be free and not used for enslavement for any reason. Most of humanity now finds the thought of enslavement completely revolting and primeval.

We are growing up spiritually in finally recognizing that animals have emotions and feel pain, not only unconscious impulses of survival to eat, procreate, and flee.

So, here we are as humans operating through our five physical senses in the world and simultaneously using our higher spiritual psychic or intuitive resources to guide us, hopefully, for the greater good. We can only separate this combination in our mind.

What gets out of balance is when we try to split our spiritual-physical selves with a false belief. We believe the only reality and greatest worth is the physical world of things instead of the spiritual part of us that guides us, is our true moral compass to the greater meaning and purpose in life, and finally what we choose to do with all the things we create!

3 Levels of Power

Let’s take a look at a method we can use for discovering where imbalances originate. This can be used for both combinations of the four pillars. This is a method of interpreting our life situations through the 3 Levels of Power as created by Carolyn Myss, the great spiritual teacher and medical intuitive. I also refer to them as the three levels of conscious awareness.

This revealing process helps uncover our personal energy power as it relates to our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual growth.

The 3 Levels are:

1. Tribal Power – Lowest level of power – The follower who follows the group who makes the choices for us based on their experiences, rules, and beliefs.
2. Individual Power – High level of power – Our personal beliefs, judgments that come from experience, but also the place we turn inward for personal inquiry about what we believe.
3. Symbolic Power – Highest level of power – Where we step outside of ourselves and look at situations from an overall transcendent point of view. We observe and ask what the situation represents in the higher spiritual order of things for the highest good.

Looking Within For Answers

Once we understand the 3 Levels of Power and filter a situation through each level to determine where it originates or what level of power it represents to us, we continue with applying the tool of personal inquiry. We ask ourselves questions to uncover our truths and determine right actions we desire to take to heal and empower the spiritual-physical imbalance. We can ask for example:

Are we on a path of creating division and separation or are on a path of creating unity and oneness in the world? Are we individually creating and manifesting for good or for ill – in the darkness of hate, superstition, and ignorance or are we open to seeking knowledge, undoing conflict, superstitions, and breaking patterns of hate?

Are we creating in the world out of ego simply to acquire, or are we creating using the guidance of our higher spiritual resources not only for the joy of creating, but with the foremost sense that we are also being of service and sharing our talents with others for the highest good?

What fears (worry, anxiety, superstitions, prejudice, hate) block us from actively creating balance?

Next Month: Part II - Balance Between Our Feminine-Masculine Self

No matter whether we are a woman or a man, we are born with the combined aspects of both the feminine and masculine energy powers. We’ll be exploring our combined feminine-masculine aspects in Part II of December’s article.

Resources:

Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them – CD by Carolyn Myss

Anatomy of the Spirit – CD or Book by Carolyn Myss

Four Levels of Healing – A Guide to Balancing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Aspects of Life – Book by Shakti Gawain

Affirmation for this month – Balance

I make adjustments today, between what my spirit desires and my body requires, in order to bring forth a peaceful equilibrium.

Live in beauty and be well - Triza Schultz

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