Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Juggling the demands of life

How many balls do you keep in the air? When you're focusing on one project are you also managing to not let the other important things in life slip? When we're busy and occupied with something that's either creative, demanding or stressful, it's often the case that some other important aspects of life get forgotten and fall by the wayside, and it's only after a while that we notice that they are not as they should be. It's "Hey", "Whoops", "Help!" or at worst xxxx!!

For me, it's keeping my Alexander Technique practice going, but I also write blogs and books, play the violin as well as doing photography either with my cameras or in the darkroom. Somewhere in between all these things are family and social commitments and particularly companionship for my partner who's not sure whether she's a photography widow, a violinist's widow or other.

When we are very wrapped up in thought and involved with one project or activity that takes our whole mind and energy for a while, other things in life do not get the same amount of focus. How can they? And where our thoughts are, is what we get in life. "Where you look is where you go." I certainly have found, for instance, if I've been under pressure to finish a book for a date set my agent or publisher then the demands on time and energy are such that my Alexander Technique practice, important as it is, takes second place for a while. And if it wasn't for my clients phoning up to make appointments, I would forget what day it was.....or almost. After a while I may find that my diary is only half full, but the bills still have to be paid!

However on discussing this today with someone who found that the mansion and estate he had bought, had a previous planning precedent for rebuilding and the extra space and new design was much as he wanted to do himself; the estimated valuation was a 50% increase over price paid+build cost. He could get what he wanted in lifestyle and house as well as make a good investment. This is all along with his hectic business life and equestrian successes in the arena. Where he puts his heart and emotions, he gets results. So we were discussing 'where the heart is, the Universe will provide'. Where there is passion and emotion for something, even if we don't have a lot of time to put into it, we will get results. I have found this to be the case so often in my own life.

Who says that we need to put a lot of time into projects to make everything work? There is no written law as far as I know. But if we create emotion around something, the Law of Attraction is such that we will attract towards us the circumstances to fulfil our needs and desires. Indeed there is no written law that says 'in order to be successful we need to work very hard'. But because we are brought up to believe this, indoctrinated from birth, that is therefore how we experience life. However, if we were to believe that we need not work hard in order to be successful, and as long as we have the desire and emotion to achieve, we will do so with the level of work that we are prepared to give it! Parkinson's Law "Work expands to fill the time allotted to it." can be adapted to fit this situation too. "The amount of work required to be successful will match that which we believe to be the case."

So I put passion into my AT practice and also into my violin playing and photography. I allocate some time
to each so they have place in my life. It's not a lot of time but some and with my good intentions and wishes it seems that a natural balance is brought about and I get what I want.

The art of keeping the 'balls of life' in the air I believe, is to 'see' them all working out as you wish in your mind's eye. Emotionally 'live it' now. See your life as you would ideally have it. Get excited about how wonderful it can all be and let the Universe work it all out for you. It is my belief that if we believe it will work out, it will. If we say this is all nonsense and I don't believe it, then that is the way we will experience it. It's the Law of Attraction. You get what you think about. So it's wise to carefully select our thoughts.

:-)

Posted by Noël on November 1, 2006 10:23 AM | Permalink