BALANCING YOUR BALANCE
When Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope across the Grand Canyon a couple years ago, he had to focus his mental energies on many different things simultaneously. However, there is one thing that he could never forget, and that was balance. Measuring each step with precision, feeling the changing winds, adjusting his body movement for the tightrope vibration, and carrying that long balance bar, were activities that all contributed to his balance. Without balance, Wallenda would have been dead.
Fortunately, you and I do not encounter the same kinds of physical and mental challenges in our daily lives as Wallenda did on his walk across the canyon. Nevertheless, we, just as much as Wallenda, absolutely must maintain balance in our lives every single day. Failure to do so can bring us great harm, even death.
The healthy person has the ability to distribute resources in such a fashion that key components of personhood adequately develop and maintain. These components could be identified as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, personal, and professional.
If I choose to develop myself physically, I may become a fine physical specimen, yet find myself very subpar mentally, emotionally, spiritually, personally, and professionally. Alternatively, I might choose to develop myself spiritually to the point that I become so “heavenly minded” that I am no earthly good.
My point is that the very dimensions of our personhood that we seek to keep in balance must themselves, be balanced against each other. You cannot operate within one realm without affecting the other realms to some degree. A person of balance understands that all these components must ultimately form an integrated whole. Furthermore, that integrated whole will only be more robust as equal attention is given to each of the personhood components.
Be the person you are supposed to be! Just keep your whole self in balance.
