BALANCE: a great asset for living well.

Balance: a great asset for living well

BALANCE – [Being Aware Leveraging All Notions Creating Equality]

A meaning in the dictionary is, "Stability of one's mind or feelings: the way to some kind of peace and personal balance."

As we have moved into the new year of 2016 I suspect that balance is certainly one of the attributes that is most essential today.

Being Aware: Aware, "concerned and well-informed about a particular situation or development." A being does not stay alive and healthy for any length of time without awareness.
Leveraging All Notions:
Leveraging, "The power to influence a person or situation to achieve a particular outcome."
Notions: "A conception of or belief about something, an impulse or desire."
Creating Equality: "the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities."

Awareness is something that seems to be lacking among humanity today. A saying that many have heard, "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." This may be true about our frame or skeleton but has less worth for our internal feelings and well being. Some refer it as "political correctness," interpreted as using polite and appropriate terms when speaking of others. Too often, however, it shows distain and prejudice toward another with judgement leading to bullying at best and, at worst, crime and death.

As a retired Episcopal priest, I am especially dismayed by those who claim to be religious knowing "love thy neighbor as thyself" but who continue to speak and act uncharitably toward others. With the expansion of travel and communications throughout our expanding world, especially in urban populations, our neighbors are closer. With these and other changes our neighborhoods are increasingly diverse which causes more strain on our sharing equally. It makes our democracy more difficult to honor that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Being aware of these growing changes, that will always continue, we must learn to live with these evolutionary core values of our universe; change, diversity, and equality. Utilizing these core values is essential in Leverage All Notions to empower and achieve positive outcomes for living well on this planet. If our notion or reluctance about them is weak then our leveraging will wain because they were established in creation and will always be a part of what happens in the universe. Change, diversity and equality are a given and not a choice!

Creating Equality, part of this universal core construction, needs to become part of the way we always live and function. Our human life is equal with all other parts because we are constructed from the same elements and atoms that are the core everything that exists. Each part may be unique and special, not suggesting uniformity in any way, because of the core value of diversity. An excellent example is when we compare children who are born from the same parents, especially in large families, and seldom are exactly the same or alike. Each person is special in their own way and deserve equal respect for their individuality and diversity.

Until we understand, except and live with this BALANCE – [Being Aware Leveraging All Notions Creating Equality] we only create chaos and destruction. In this 21st century we must learn to practice balance so as to promote and maintain life as we acknowledge and want it to be. Notions of Superiority or Inferiority are beliefs and ideas that cause imbalance to our living together, preventing the love and respect necessary for proper growth and development.

Gerard A. Pisani, Jr.