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Old Feb 28, 2012, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by earthmamma View Post
Yes for more balance in my emotional live and a better knowledge and awareness of who and what I am.
Start with the goal of noticing when, where, how the balance of your emotional life is now? One cannot fix a problem until one can see and understand the problem. If you think you want "more" balance, you have to see where the fulcrum is now before you figure out where you'd like to move it to?

Catch yourself when you do things "right", when you correct your balance. Notice when you have X problem, go off on Y tangent, correct at Z; each time you notice, you will probably notice that the Z correction happens closer to the tangent, that the tangent gets shorter and shorter (might take a zillion years but will be happening :-)

Congratulate yourself for correcting at Z; it is a correction, afterall! Instead of looking at "geez, Y tangent is horrible. . ." look at the Z correction and congratulate yourself for finding your center again. Think of yourself like one of those weighted-bottom clowns that you punch and they go over but come back up, swinging wildly back and forth for awhile before remaining centered, upright. A seesaw has a centered fulcrum but still, it goes up and down, first one way then the next! One of my most comforting proverbs is an Arabian one: "All sun makes a desert."
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