What is life balance? Is balance a state where outer circumstances are settled and in harmony or is balance an internal state? Or is it both...?

What does it mean to you? Balance is defined as "a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions". This invites us to look at the "larger picture" or whole system, and think holistically about the different interests and life pieces we consider important.

Ever so often life presents us with challenges and lessons to be learned. We can meet that challenge, or we can let our instinct take over and pretend it's not happening. We can not flee from our challenges forever. There are certain roadblocks and certain thresholds that will guide us into the next phase of our life. We can avoid them, resist them, or flee from them. None of this will really work. We have to give ourselves the time to sit with our challenges. To be with them, to not hold back.