Balance Spiritual & Physical Life

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I like to view our lifetimes like a song we are improvising as we go along. One of the main features of music is cycles: both small and large. So when considering balance, I think it's less important to balance everything at the same time and more important to balance everything across time. For example, in the daily or weekly cycles, we might dedicate some time to work, some time to relationships, some time to fun, some time to spiritual seeking, and some time to healthy habits. Then, in yearly cycles, we might shift how much of our time is dedicated for each category in our daily and weekly cycles depending on which ones we choose to focus. For some parts of our lives, we might be focused mainly on work or relationships while the other categories are in a form of maintenance mode. Other parts of our lives may have a better balance or rotating around what's most important.

When considering how to allocate time and priorities, I think it is helpful to consider the big picture of the whole lifetime and see which categories are most important to work on at this time to make the lifetime more melodic or harmonious. The balance we seek is not necessarily the same amount of time dedicated to each category but rather the right allocation to each category that best creates beauty, goodness, and truth for our own individual situation.

There are many ways to make beautiful music and each has their own preferences and genres they like. So it is with life experiences so the most important question is: what kind of life experiences do you want to improvise?

Here is a video about musical improvisation which one can correspond to life improvisation as well: