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When life’s struggles and challenges show up I’m reminded of the line, “In this world you will have trouble,” and, something my mother-in-law often said, “Out of something bad, comes something good!”
How can you take the troubles in life and create something good, something better? How can you overcome the hurt and pain from the loss of a job, a relationship, finances and/or health – to create hope for the future?
If you say, “It’s just too hard,” you lose your balance or become stuck. Like a car with a flat tire, an unbalanced life doesn’t move along well. It will wobble from lack of steadiness or equilibrium. It may even fall off its rim. Life becomes challenging, overwhelming and stressful.
Much research has been done to understand the links between stress, its connections to our mind and body and its impact on our life. If we are stressing to maintain balance in our external world, our body must work hard to sustain a steady state of internal balance called homeostasis. Stress disrupts this fine balance impacting our physical and mental health as well as our success in life.
Stress ignites your flight or fight response which includes three stages – alarm, resistance and exhaustion. If you adapt well to stress, you recover, returning to a balanced state. If you fail to adapt, you may continue to function at an increased rate, but eventually exhaustion sets in.
Picture someone living their life on a hamster wheel. While managing the activities of daily living, along with the various challenges and trials of life, they try to maintain their balance as the wheel spins faster and faster. They struggle and stumble, becoming exhausted and loosing their balance. Their life falls apart.
Are you living your life in balance? Are you curious to know the key facets of balanced living and to discover how you’re doing? Download your copy of the Life Assessment Exercise. Download your copy of the Balance Wheel Exercise.
If “it’s just too hard” for you to maintain balance in your life, or if you’re unable to turnaround undesirable experiences you may need some support, help and coaching. Contact me at https://bettyfranklin.com/contact/
