THE BRAVELY BALANCED BLOG

For the overachiever and the overworked!

How exhausted are you? I know the feeling!

Does being exhausted serve you? What if I told you that you could have it all without subjecting yourself to hustle culture?

Sounds divine, doesn’t it? Follow along and feel the ease!

The Stillpoint Within: A Simple Practice for Calm and Stability
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The Stillpoint Within: A Simple Practice for Calm and Stability

I’m an anxious person, and I work with anxious people. One very powerful skill for an anxious person, or for anyone dealing with any kind of stress, is to find their inner stillpoint.

There’s an exercize I learned along the way a number of years ago. I no longer recall from where, but it is very useful as a way to find and maintain that stillpoint we all have inside us.

Here’s the exercise: …

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Why A Quiet Mind Changes Everything
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Why A Quiet Mind Changes Everything

I meditate in some form daily. I find it sets my day in a good direction: even if the rest of the day is really difficult, I know it began well, and tomorrow will too.

Most of us know this at least intellectually. And yet, …

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Be Calm, Be Powerful
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Be Calm, Be Powerful

There is a meditation I was given by 2 colleagues and friends, Victor and Kooch Daniels that helps me whenever I feel anxious, or can’t get a worrying thought out of my head. It’s one of a number of meditations in their book they gifted me Matrix Meditations. I think of it as the 10 times 10 meditation. I’ll share it with you …

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