Cultivating Balance, Seeking Balance, Living into Balance

​This month I’m looking at balance. At cultivating balance, seeking balance and how we might live into balance. In a world filled with challenges that threaten our inner and outer sense of balance, finding balance is not as easy as it may sound because in the end “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” (Jana Kingsford)

• Its about learning to identify patterns that bring about imbalances and destabilize us. 
• Its about seeking aligning between head and heart.
• Its about internal harmony between what you think, say, and do. 
• Its about noticing when you start to feel unbalanced or destabilized.
• Its about adopting an ongoing self-care and self-nourishment. 
  

To cultivate more balance requires:

1.  Continue to heal internal wounds as we become aware of them.
   
2. Awareness, acknowledgment, and acceptance of  feelings.
3. Finding meaning in  it all, the good, bad, and uncomfortable aspects of life.
4. Connecting with your inner self cultivate a loving and support relationship with yourself.
   
5. Taking time to listen to your senses, your intuition, and your body and then utilizing and acting on this information in a loving and support way to strengthen the relationship you have with yourself. 

It would seem that in the end balance is not about the hours you spend seeking balance or the practices you put in place to cultivate more balance but the internal harmony you feel and the alignment of your head and heart.

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Author

​Maureen Owen MDOT – PCC - Transformational Coach, Facilitator & Consultant 
My work as a coach, facilitator and consultant is focused on supporting leaders and their teams to navigate leadership challenges, to establish higher levels of trust, and to elevate their capacity for building healthier and more resilient relationships and organisations in the face of uncertainty and disruptive change.