Balance.
It’s not a solid thing that you can create. Balance is always a movement, like riding a bike. That’s how I like to explain it. You know? You get that feeling when you’re on a bike of how the forward motion keeps the back and forth sway from falling over.
Balance is something that constantly has to be lived. You fall this way and that way, here and there. Always moving.
That’s why so many Native spiritual practices are about balance. The thing that we must want to keep in balance is our inner selves, of course. But you’re not an individual being all by yourself. You and me, we are all part of this full humanity. We’re all part of our communities, we’re part of our tribes, and part of our families. So coming into balance with each other is also something that has to always be worked on.
You’re never gonna achieve it and be done. This is a beautiful thing because this puts us in a place where we’re always working on this harmony inside ourselves and with each other.
Now, imagine…
The New Age movement came into being decades ago. Everybody jumped on the bandwagon and it’s gotten more and more popular to the point where it has affected the whole culture. It’s a billion-dollar industry now: the books, and the crystals, and the sound baths, and everything. Imagine if this entire huge industry had been about balance instead of create your own reality?
Think of the change that would have moved forward. Through the 1920s, the 1950s. Imagine if we had been working on balance in the 1960s. Imagine all these decades if we were all working on balance and talking about balance. Imagine if we were writing books about balance and selling artwork about balance. Bringing balance into consciousness.
Imagine if we had had a century of working on balance. Where would we be now?
But now… it’s still a good time to start.
It seems so simple, and it seems like, “How can I control everyone else with balance?” Well, you can’t.
We can just come into balance and come into balance and make balance the priority. With that we’ll have a new world, the world we really want to live in. Not a fixed, static world, but a place where we make mistakes and come back into balance and make mistakes and come back into balance and make mistakes and come back into balance. That’s life.