Living a balanced life

Is it possible to be satisfied with yourself as a complete package? Your work life, home life, friends, family, significant other, children, ideas, judgments, realities, etc. I could go on and on but my basic point is summed up in the title "Living a balanced life." What is a balanced life and why is it significant? Who determines how balanced a person's life needs to be? From the broadest viewpoint, a balanced life is a feeling or more accurately a manifestation of the "sum total" of your existence at any given point in time.

When I think back, it was during my high school years that I began to make plans that would lead me to live a balanced life. As an adult I knew I wanted to lead a life that was less stressed, more relaxed, and full of pleasure. I can remember imagining the options that were available. It was a lot like trying to decide what dress to wear to the prom. At that age there weren't many life altering decisions thrown my way. Except for the decision to attend college, I pretty much had no other major challenges that had directional impact toward my future. I thought about being the type of adult who made excuses and fabrications to explain "away" those things that I have neglected to accomplish or made poor choices about. On the other hand, I could be the type who met the challenge straight on and would hold myself accountable for whatever the outcome would be. The decision wasn't rocket science and I chose to be the type of adult that I most admired and could look up to. Now that I am the ideal adult I've always wanted to be, I look back at the last 27yrs and see clearly what it took to make that decision a reality.

As a teen, I had to identify the areas of life I wanted/needed to maintain a good balance. This was particularly difficult because this time in my life was such a turning point. During this time I found some relief when I noticed that some areas would automatically balance when other areas that were closely connected stabilized. After revisiting that area throughout my college career, I felt a need to look at a greater point of reference. I didn't have a book to read on this matter nor did I feel completely trusting of anyone to tell me how to accomplish this task. I decided that the best thing to do was to mimic the best example known to mankind, the example that has stood the test of time millennia after millennia. My end result was to follow the examples set by nature. The first thing I could think about when the topic of balance is brought up in the context of nature is trees. The largest trees on the planet had to start as a seed and maintain balance in order to grow strong and sturdy. I now think of the roots of the large tree as my foundation and the trunk of the tree is my conviction, dedication, determination, and courage. The branches represent my different areas of focus.

• I am the tree whose root system is the principle foundation and view of self, others, and the natural surroundings. I am nature's manifestation of warmth and gratitude. My focus is the attraction to and assembly with other life forms. This lays a pathway toward better understanding and our placement in the vastness of being.
  
• I am the tree whose trunk encases a will to succeed and the strength to attempt the journey. My determination presses onward watching in the wake of its path as the most derogatory statements reduce themselves to nothing more than a tenuous suggestion.
  
• I am the tree whose branches have ventured out towards the rewards of the luminous and welcoming skies. With my every growing focus, I expand my reach to encompass all things nature-filled and douse my leaves with the promise of each new sun.
  

I can see how challenging it has been to live a balanced life and the tumultuous journey that may lie ahead. Presently, I have focused my daily journey and find the following words to make its' dedication:

I call upon my ancestors when I cannot understand something that seems too amazing to be real "Ga'el Azeeir S'ktuU" (pronounced: ga- el- azee-air-sank-too) (means: process this for my clarity, please). I keep the essence of my being as it was originally given to me: Sacred, pure, and in harmony. I lavish myself in the strongest vibrations to manifest healings and universal intent. I sing the songs of love and life through my daily chants for universal balance through natural order. I judge ONLY MY dedications and let their corrected paths become airborne. I cast into the nebulas of rebirth all that doesn't suit the harmonics of growth so that it may find a rightful place and spawn the good balance. I teach to all those who want to know and I accept teachings from the most pure source ever known no matter its manifestation. I forward and retrograde my powers of understanding to make right my movements in harmony set forth and willed by nature. I grant, with each beam assembled unto me, with absolute singularity, the permissions needed and necessary to communicate in whole with ONLY my ancestors and of them ONLY those who are in alignment with the natural order of the sun, moon, void, earth, water, fire, and air. All these things I do to adjust balance, ring harmony, and conduct natural order.

Life Force, Life Forms, and HUMANS

“ALL life wants to live!” In order to understand that you must look closer at what it means to live. Does it mean waking up every morning going about our rituals of the day? Does it mean breathing oxygen into our lungs and exhaling with every heartbeat given? What does it mean to live?

One night I had a dream and in that dream I asked about life. I cannot remember the entire conversation but when I woke from that dream the phrase that stayed with me is the one I began this passage with. Throughout the remaining portion of that day I couldn’t stop thinking about this dream and more of it came to me. The bottom line was significant to Human existence as a life form on a life force. This was such an enigmatic moment for me as I couldn’t immediately understand but somehow knew what it all meant.

In reference to being Human and designated as the “most intelligent” species on this planet, I sometimes don’t know if I should laugh or cry at the reality of this statement.  There are countless amounts of life on our little blue dot in space and yet only a fraction of it is ever really referenced. As if, no other life form is important enough or impactful enough to constitute even an honorable mention. If I believed the theory that mankind is the most intelligent then I would cry very sorrowful tears because I am a member of a group who feels that intelligent beings customarily kill other beings for sport, pleasure, or no reason at all. I would douse my face in a pool of cool water to extinguish the ignorance burning in my mind that was allowing me to think intelligent beings habitually pollute the earth they live on as well as the bodies they live in all in the name of pleasure, desire, or a false sense of self importance.

The animals of this planet have a job to do just as we (humans) have. If you really stop to think about it, you inevitably come to the conclusion that either they (animals) are doing their job much more efficiently and with much less negative impact than we are or we have lost some critical information with regards to living and flourishing on this planet. Does that make them more intelligent than us? Some may say yes however, that isn’t the major issue. The most significant issue is that there is major work to be done in order for us (human, animal, and planet) to reach the next level. What we think of as living from day to day is not living at all and does nothing toward the elevation of planet and species. We are all capable of so much more and yet we squander our abilities on frivolous wants, desires, and pseudo-needs.

So what makes me qualified to point my finger at the race (human race) that I am a member of? Well, I have had a revelation that my own precious life force is slowly slipping away from me due to inadequate understanding of a genuine and most basic connection that we all share. Think of it as the glue that binds natural order. Humans and all other life forms on this planet do not exist individually, we coexist. When you examine the relationships further you find a deeper bond, a symbiotic connection between all life. This connection completes us all.

Welcome to Visible Light2010

This blog will become a collection of interesting reading material. I have interests in enough topics to keep everyone who visit this blog interested and willing to return. The subject matter will not be just my opinions and I don’t have plans to lead or guide anyone in any specific direction. Instead, I am excited about exploring topics from a different perspective. I want to tap into the part of your mind that thirsts for exploration, adventure, intrigue, and enigmatic dogma that “gives you pause.”

Come along with me down that winding road of consciousness that lures you into its bed of dreams. So that we may manifest that which, up ‘till now, only existed in the deepest depths of our conscious being we call....”self.”