How do you get off the hamster wheel of demands on your time and focus that sacrifice other areas of your life? Balance between your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs can be tricky to achieve and while life is never a perfect circle of equal amounts of all four elements, there needs to be a kind of flow between all aspects that can give you a feeling of joy, accomplishment, spaciousness and connection with others – it is how we humans are wired and the only way we get to thrive!
You know when things are out of balance when you have developed tunnel vision in your work to the exclusion of paying attention to your relationships or to your health or to the simple need you might be feeling to just let go and have fun or … to the deep ache within you to just sleep and rest!
The link below is another gem from Psychology Today that offers some concrete ideas and steps you can take to restore balance to a life that may be a bit lopsided. In addition to enjoying the read, consider what items you can incorporate into your conscious choices – one step at a time, you can get the energy breathing through you again and feeding all parts of your existence!!
Try this ->
Cut and paste this checklist somewhere you will see it as a reminder that balance in your life is essential for your continued wellbeing and utterly soul-feeding need for self-love and peace of mind:
Watch the way your outside world starts to shift when you:
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