How to Apply the Law of Balance

With the success of the Law of Attraction, more people have discovered the value of applying universal laws. I’ve just finished the book The Laws of Spirit by Dan Millman. It’s a wonderful little book with tons of useful information. In the next few months I will highlight some of the laws mentioned in this book and my experience with applying these laws. The first law in the book is the Law of Balance. It states that anything we can do, we can overdo or underdo. You’ve got to find the middle way.

The best way to illustrate the Law of Balance is by using an example. In the book the main character has to hit a tree from 30 feet away. He misses by a few feet to the left. The next stone is a little bit closer to the tree, but still a few feet to the left. The sage in the story explains that if you don’t hit center, then you have to overcorrect. If you normally aim too far left, you now deliberately aim too far right. You have to get out of your comfort zone. That way you find center -  that way you will find your balance.

If you apply the Law of Balance it will increase your awareness of, and decrease your tolerance for, the imbalances you normally experience. But first you must know what balance feels like. You can tell tense people to relax, but it will do little good if they don’t know what ‘relaxed’ feels like. However once they experience a state of deep relaxation, they have a reference point. They can more easily notice tension as it arises and can take steps to release it.

Breathing is very important in finding your balance. When the rhythms of your breathing are out of balance, your emotions are too. When you feel anger, sorrow or fear, accept it fully, and breathe deeply to find your balance.

Once you know what true balance feels like, you’ll begin to notice what’s out of balance in any area of your life. You apply the Law of Balance by noticing your imbalances. This may sound very simple, but it is not always easy. Whatever you’re accustomed to feeling, will feel normal to you. Shifting to a state of true balance may actually feel odd at first. The fastest way to find center is to overcorrect. That means you deliberately practice the opposite of what you’re used to doing.

A few years ago I did the NLP Practitioner course and found out some things about me I wasn’t aware of before. One exercise lets you tell a story you can make up yourself or tell from your own experience. I was talking about the Derren Brown show I had seen the other night on DVD (Trick of the Mind Series 1) and I was talking quite enthusiastically.  Well, that’s my normal way of talking. A few feet from me was another student who was holding up signs telling me to speak faster or slower, higher or lower, or louder or more quietly. I noticed that I lost my train of thought if I talked too slow, too low or too quiet. Since then I’ve paid more attention to how I come across when speaking to one person or a room full of people. I’ve noticed again that my preferred way of speaking is very enthusiastically, which is normally quite fast, high and loud. That’s great for motivating people, but that also means that sometimes you lose people in a conversation if that is not their preferred way of communicating. I will apply the Law of Balance the following weeks and deliberately overcorrect by talking much slower. It makes sense that you would want to be flexible in your communication, so you can choose to adjust your way of talking to the person or group sitting across from you.

So pay attention to any imbalance caused by doing too much or too little in areas of eating, drinking, exercise, work or communication. Get out of your comfort zone and find your balance. Once your find your own balance, you also find the inner peace and inner power to make a real difference in the world.

Take care and until next time.

Gerber

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