Balance and Harmony
One of the ways to look at any disease or illness is to see it as a loss of balance. Something has got out of kilter and things are no longer behaving as they were designed to do, resulting in a loss of function and efficiency. In our work in the microbial world, we see this every day especially when non-natural chemicals or substances are introduced into our environment. However, if we allow the microbial world to play its part, it will restore the balance resulting in health and resilience. Once this becomes established the harmony between us and our world returns. And when we have harmony things start to flourish and growth is easily accomplished.
In our world today much of the harmony has been lost and this is resulting in growing levels of fear and conflict. When we look at an international level it is easy to lose heart and hope, bringing up feelings of powerlessness and futility. It is at times like this that we bring our focus back to ourselves and our significant relationships and apply ourselves to restoring harmony within ourselves and sharing that with our family and friends.
Our relationships are always a balancing act, and we must be aware of this dynamic, understanding that if one becomes polarised in some way the partner will balance that swing out. This is one of the main dynamics that allows just one partner to regain their centre and transform and heal any relationship. It is true that relationships are not static; we can drift apart and then, when we hit the outswing limit, the love, caring and kindness pull us back into a closer orbit. This is a natural cycle; the only danger is becoming stuck and polarized in any behaviour.
It is important that we work on ourselves and our relationships because we often resort to making our partners wrong to the extent that the polarization increases, putting the relationship in danger. Also, in our experience if we don’t work on our relationships, and learn the principles of projection and transference, it is only a matter of time before they fail. However, it is also true to say that a relationship can survive anything as long as there is some willingness to learn and change.
Our ability to understand how relationships balance and then our willingness to learn and change will allow for our relationships to become harmonious, to exist in a state that has awareness but no conflict. Once we achieve the experience of harmony other possibilities will come towards us. Our mental state will then reflect back to us a world in harmony.
But the present international events appear to be anything but harmony. As the Canadian Prime minister recently stated, our world is in a state of rupture and conflicts seem to be more common as chasms open up in many places.
While it would be easy to take a pessimistic view of events right now it is also important to understand if we had truly achieved a state of harmony amongst us all then this would not or could not be happening. Many of us in our families and relationships did not do the deeper work to truly bring our families together in a state of harmony. Instead, we developed coping strategies to get by and took on a level of denial about how we truly felt. Now those buried issues are coming to the surface to be exploited by people seeking power.
It is not the time to get caught in a blame game, but to become truly accountable and look at our closest relationship with new eyes, becoming aware of our polarisations and balances and doing what is required to heal the conflicts in our minds. Let us keep applying ourselves until we reach a genuine state of harmony for ourselves and our families, then from our centres expand out into our world.
With love,
Jeff