Chel Hamilton 0:00

Balance isn't a fixed point. It's a rhythm. This meditation helps you find your own natural flow so life stops feeling like a constant tug of war.

Intro 0:10

This is the Meditation Minis podcast with your host, Hypnotist Shell Hamilton.

Chel Hamilton 0:16

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and let's explore another idea of balance. Something that has more movement, more rhythm, more flow. As you take those three deep breaths and know that quickly, easily and effortlessly you can allow yourself to relax. I'd like you to imagine yourself walking someplace outside that just feels so safe and connected. A magical place. A place that you might see in a fairy movie, perhaps. Something that just feels so very magical and safe. And maybe this magical safe place for you out in nature is like being on the islands in Hawaii. Or maybe it's being deep in the forest. But wherever you find yourself, just allow yourself to be there as you walk along, feeling that sense of curiosity and connectedness. As you come to a little opening, a glade of sorts, you may be surprised to discover a very large grandfather clock out here in the middle of the sky and the trees and the breeze. And this grandfather clock is just there. And finding yourself, of course, very curious about that too. Go ahead and head over to the grandfather clock. And it has those big pendulums that just swing back and forth, back and forth. As the clock keeps time ticking along not too fast and not too slow. And you may get a sense of what that would sound like for you, to hear the clicking of that grandfather to. And you may get the sense of what that would sound like for you, hearing the clicking of that grandfather clock as it ticks and it talks. And isn't it interesting how the pendulum swings just so to keep the perfect time not too fast and not too slow, and therein the balance lies. Because as high as the pendulum must swing to one side, so too the reverse is true. In between the swing to the left and the swing to the right, time is kept. Maybe you were very angry, maybe you were very happy. Think about that time when you were very, very happy, and then it felt like everything had to go the opposite direction a few days later, perhaps. And of course, if we fight it, it makes it worse. What would happen if these times, if we were just to adjust how high, so that the balance can swing closer to center. Now, of course, the times when we're feeling good, we want to let that pendulum swing as high as it can, but the reverse is often true. Especially at the beginning, when you're just learning how to move in the rhythm and flow. Because it's true, as you get more comfortable with letting life get good, that becomes your new set point for the high side. But when you're not used to life being good, when you're used to it being this roller coaster ride, then at first it can be very helpful to just not let it swing so high, to not ride as high. But then once you start to get comfortable with allowing life to be good in different areas of your life, maybe even all of them when you get to a certain point. Then there's no longer any need to really keep the damper down on things because your new set point is this much happier set point. And so, like that, too, it's almost as though there's a spiral within you, and you can climb higher and higher while the pendulum swings left and right because you find that space inside.