Leading a balanced life is low on a lot of people’s list of priorities, but it belongs at the top. Find out what balance in life is, ways we become imbalanced, and smart, easy tips to lead a balanced life.
Life can be exciting, but it can also spin out of control and become so overwhelming you feel like you're going to lose your mind. During times like that, finding balance is extremely important. Join SpiritualBlossom to find out how to lead a balanced life. Find out exactly what balance means and what creates imbalances. Find out why it's important to maintain balance in life, and 10 simple ways to stay balanced. If life is falling apart and balance is out of control right now, don't worry. By the time you finish reading this article you'll have some ideas of how to get things under control.
What is Balance?
Balance in life means that you have harmony in the various areas of your life, including your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical selves. Living a balanced life can become a juggling act. You balance your career with your roles within your family, your personal community, and then within your intimate friends’ group. Besides balancing all this, you have to balance your self-care. You have to make sure that your work is meaningful and doesn't deplete you. You have to make sure that you take care of your health by eating properly, getting enough sleep, and getting the right exercise.
There's something else that needs to be balanced also. You need to balance your hopes and desires for the future with the things that you're doing to try to make your dreams come true. After working, spending time with the people you love, and taking care of everyone and everything that you need to, this can seem impossible. You also have to balance your expectations, so they are realistic, and set realistic goals for yourself. Keep in mind that just because meeting a goal is not happening right now doesn't mean it will never happen. Planning for the future can happen even if you're having difficulties in the present or you're trying to heal from trauma in the past. Read about how to heal from past trauma here. Healing Form Past Traumas
What Creates Imbalance?
We experience imbalance in our lives when one thing gets out of control. Working too much and not allowing yourself to rest exhausts you and that creates an imbalance in your energy levels, and can also damage your health. However, not enough time and focus on your work creates an imbalance in your life and will keep you from moving forward in your career. Focusing too heavily on career and not spending enough time with the people that you love will create an imbalance that damages your relationships. Relationships can become imbalanced also. Being involved with people who do nothing but take while you do nothing but give, compromises your emotional well-being because you won't have meaningful relationships.
Imbalances are always created by choices. When you choose to focus too heavily on one thing, and not give enough focus to everything else, it is those decisions that allow the imbalance to happen. To get things back on track, all you have to do is choose to balance things. Sometimes, that's easier said than done though, and even when you decide to make things balanced again, reorganization of things can take time. Sometimes you don't have a choice. Someone else chose to make things become unbalanced. Having a heavy work schedule dumped on you by a lazy supervisor is never your choice, but you can choose to look for a different job and get out of that mess.
Why Focus on Balance?
Why is it important to have balance in life? It's so that we can have a healthy life with a good sense of well-being. Balance allows a variety of different experiences in life, and helps to make us more well-rounded people. That means that we don't fall into a monotonous existence that is so repetitious we become miserable. It helps to ensure that we get enough rest, but enough stimulation. It helps to ensure that we are industrious in meaningful ways and contribute to our society, but that we are not depleted by our work. It ensures that we can focus on having good health and have stress reduction as well. It helps to keep us from burning out. If you feel burned out, you might benefit from some alone time. Read about the benefits of solitude here: Embracing the Joy of Solitary Time
What if you don't focus on leading a balanced life? Some people don't have to. They just naturally seem to know how to balance everything. Most of us have to be consciously aware of what we're doing though and exactly how often we're doing it, though. We have to pay attention lest we start to grow tired of certain experiences and we long to have other experiences instead. We have to think about what improves our quality of life and how that helps make us feel good. We even have to think of what is best for us and what other people want us to do. Learn how to have the courage to do your own thing even if people hate you for it: How to Have the Courage to Be Disliked
How to Stay Balanced
Staying balanced is easier than you might think. It all starts with the decision that you're going to change your life for the better. Making a list of what your priorities are and then eliminating distractions, meaning pushing things that aren't important out of the way are two ways to do it and you can also make a schedule. Be fair though, and allow for things to go wrong but learn to say no and make your work meaningful. Next you have to focus on yourself. You have to play as well as work and love deeply, allowing yourself plenty of rest and then dream of what you want your future to be like.
Prioritize
Decide what's most important, then decide what's important but wasn't the very most important, and then decide what has minor importance. Focus on the most important things first of course, giving them the most attention. If all you do is focus on what's most important first, that will bring more balance into your life than you had ever expected. Some things just aren't important at all and if you pay attention to prioritizing things, you might discover that you have been making the wrong things your top priorities. If you find it difficult to prioritize, read about how to make tough decisions here: Making Hard Decisions
Eliminate Distractions
After you prioritize what's important, decide what really doesn't have any importance at all. How many different things are you wasting your time on that don't deserve your attention? You can simply discard those things. This might be a matter of budgeting and eliminating the purchase of expensive things that you don't want or need and it might be a matter of learning to say no to people who ask you to do things that really aren't important. It's your life. Only you can decide what's important and what should be included. Everything else can be eliminated.
Make a Schedule
Schedules might seem tedious to draw up, but they help greatly. Keeping a schedule is just a matter of forming habits. The more you do things, the more used to them you get, and the easier it will become to make sure that you continue doing them. Things that are not included in the schedule of your needs may try to sneak in. All you have to do is refer to your schedule and see that you don't have time for them. That will help you to balance your time better and keep you from getting overwhelmed. Virgos are great at organizing schedules and you can read about that Zodiac Sign here: Virgo Traits and Love Compatibility
Allow For Mishaps
No matter how well you plan for things, sometimes things will go wrong. You have to be fair to yourself and forgive the fact that you can't control everything. You might perfectly plan everything and work very hard towards something, but at the last minute something unexpected will pop up and there won't be a thing you can do about it. Don't let the fact that things go wrong sometimes completely control your emotions or make you give up. Even though we can't control everything, we can always control our reactions and even ask for help when we can't fix things on our own.
Learn to Say No
One of the most important things you can do to keep balance in your life is to learn to say no. People will always ask you to do things for them that will eat into your time, exhaust you, or even chip away at your financial resources. People will expect you to do things for them that they wouldn't do for you. Toxic people but you expect you to be emotionally available to them so they can abuse you. Your friends and family may express a sense of entitlement, and place unfair demands on you because they think you owe something to them. Never buckle to pressure that people put on you to do things for them that will compromise you. Learn all about the magical power of saying no and how to do it here: How to Say No: Reclaim Your Power
Work Meaningfully
The work you do should have some form of meaning. It should mean more than lining some employers’ pockets with money. It should be challenging for you and it should give you a sense of accomplishment. It should be something that you enjoy doing and it should help you to highlight your talents and skills. It should be something that you build on. It should support you intellectually, emotionally, and financially. Of course everything you work for doesn't give you a paycheck. Volunteer jobs are done to strengthen your community. Whatever work you do, whether it pays or not, it should mean something to you. If you are just working to benefit other people, find work that is more well suited to you. It will help you to balance your emotional and psychological sense of well-being, and help you to build a better life for yourself.
Play
Life shouldn't be all about work. You should take time away from work and enjoy yourself. Yes, even if you love your job. If you do one thing too much, it will exhaust you. What kind of things do you like to do? You don't have to wait until you get a vacation and you don't have to wait until you retire to go out and enjoy life. Take day trips on your weekends off to festivals, and go with people who you like. Pick up a hobby on the side. What do you like to do? Do you like to paint, bake, garden, hike, sail? Set time aside to do those things. Being happy is one thing that life is all about. What is your lifepath? Find out here: What is Your Lifepath?
Love Fiercely
Spending time with the people who you love is just as important as work, and enjoying life on your own. There are a few people in the world who don't like to spend time with other people at all, but that's rare. Love is a fundamental human need and without it our sense of emotional well-being and happiness are compromised. We need to emotionally connect to others, and we need to spend time with other people to alleviate a feeling of isolation. We also need love from our pets. Think of some of your happiest memories. A lot of those will include other people and the animals who you love. So make plenty of time for those you love in your life, and you will find balance.
Rest
It takes a lot of time to work, have fun, and spend time with the people who you love. If you don't get enough rest, you will become exhausted. Rest doesn't just mean getting enough sleep at night. We need rest away from things that stress them and time away from things so that our minds can reset themselves. A long weekend away from a high energy job just harmonizing with nature might be exactly what you need to make sure that you don't burn out. A break from nagging neighbors might be the rest that you need to keep you from selling your house. You can even use protective magic to help keep you from being overextended. Learn how here: Magic for Self-Defense
Dream
Make sure to allow yourself the time and room to dream. What kind of things have you always wanted to try? What kind of things do you want to do with your life? What kind of experiences do you want to include in your future? The dreams that you have for your life aren't just things to sigh wistfully about when you're bored. They should be things that you work on. After you think about what you want, make plans, and then get up and go after your dreams. Some people believe that we live many lives, but you're currently living one life. So live this life in the best way you can. Go after your dreams!
Balance might seem hard to achieve when you're exhausted, overworked, overwhelmed, or just not focusing on what's important. Leading a balanced life is important for your health, and it will keep you from getting burned out. You can return balance to your life by doing simple things like prioritizing what's important, learning to say no to unfair demands, and going after your dreams. So, make sure to keep balance in your life! You’re worth it!
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About the Author: Lady Saoirse has studied magic and lore for most of her life but started walking her own Magical Path after being spiritually reborn in the desert. Today she is a High Priestess for The Temple of the Goddess, she is a psychic advisor and spiritual counselor, she shares her gifts as a Psychic and Content Writer for Mysticsense and SpiritualBlossom, and she writes for The Green Egg Magazine and PaganPages.Org emag.
