Nowadays, people are constantly trying to balance their life. Look around you – there are articles, books, talk shows, and news stories about achieving balance constantly. Has anyone stopped to consider that balance is just not possible? That is why we call it balance in the first place. Life is a constant balancing act. Your life will tilt to one side and then sway to the other, it will teeter on top for a bit and then lean to one side or the other again.

There is no such thing as balance. Our lives are in constant motion and we constantly need to move with life. We need to stop the obsession with trying to get in perfect balance and then being upset when it feels a little off. News flash: life will always be a balancing act. All we need to do is notice when we are out of balance, or out of alignment, and just get ourselves as close to center as possible again.

We don’t have to beat ourselves up because we fell out of balance again. We don’t need to continue longing for a perfectly balanced life. It won’t happen! We don’t live in a balanced world. We live in a constantly changing and evolving world – and thank God! If we were in constant balance, there would be no room for growth. We stumble and fall so that we can grow, so we will always fall down on the balance scale and then hopefully, we will get back up, and then things will be great until we fall again.

Falls don’t have to be detrimental. Falls are just steps in our path of growth. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Don’t worry if your life feels out of balance 99% percent of the time. Just flow with it! Notice when you are out of alignment, and do what you need to do to get as close to being in alignment as possible.