Expand Into Stability

What if balance was less about the intersection of two opposing forces and more about the opposing forces themselves? Forces that are constantly interweaving and playing with one another - not to find something to hold onto, but rather to become a part of an interaction.  A verb.  A collaboration.  A movement.  

This is how I’ve been imagining balance lately.  Rather than trying to strike it, I’ve been leaning into the movement of it - blurring the edges of oscillation and undulation - so that when balance happens, it’s more of a dance or a song that comes together rather than a thing to obtain and hold on to.  Rather than gripping into center, I expand and allow center to show itself.  The more I dilate into balance in this way, the more I feel suspended in strength.  When taking up space in and beyond my body, balance becomes engineered similarly to a suspension bridge:  hung from above, expanded to endpoints, and anchored into earth.  From this expansiveness, a center emerges taught, clear, focused, and sturdy.  This kind of balance feels less fragile to disturbances like the wear and tear of traffic or the battering of bad weather.

Next time you’re trying to balance, see what it’s like to expand into it rather than seize it.  Let movement, wobbles, and weaves be present and allow the fluctuations to reveal their fulcrums.  When you find a center point, don’t grip too tightly - it might crumble if you do.