Balance in this life is the ongoing movement between two essential modes of experience: human and being. Imagine the words human and being at different ends of a spectrum of your consciousness. In your humanness, you project consciousness outward—engaging your senses, relating, building, expressing, forming a life in response to external reality. This is the part of you that exists in time. It acts, does, creates. In your being, you reflect that same consciousness inward to feel and integrate. This is where you meet the invisible: emotion, thought, intuition, memory, energy. It listens. It witnesses.
You live in the tension between these two poles. Balance is not about holding them equally. It is about knowing when to return to center, and recognizing when you’ve left it. When you stay too long in projection, you begin to feel reactive and disconnected from yourself. When you stay too long in reflection, you may feel frozen or disengaged from life. Balance is your ability to oscillate. To move fluidly between outer participation and inner alignment. To engage the world and then return to yourself over and over again. This rhythm is how you naturally regulate your energy, realign your choices, and ensure your life is not lived on autopilot. In ancient language, this is yin and yang—the inward and the outward, each feeding the other in a relationship of eternal return. To live in balance is to ask: How has the world imprinted on me? What have I internalized that constricts? What still expands me when I meet it? And then to adjust, moving forward from your truth of center.