Towards the Balanced Life: Examining the "Burdens" We Agree to Carry

I have taken a few days away to center and ground myself, following a pretty horrific week of bad news, including three more people we knew passing away since I wrote about Jim in my last post.

Time away to rest the mind and spirit is particularly important in these turbulent times, and it also offers us a chance to reflect and put perspective around our lives.

We all carry some kinds of burdens, as we go through life. Nobody's exempt!

Maybe we are only carrying our own sorrows and disappointments, but we're still carrying something.

Many people are "of service" to others or to the world in general, and they often find themselves even more burdened.

What becomes extremely important is to develop a clear sense of which burdens are yours to carry, and which ones are not.

If you are of a "helping" nature, people will often come to you for help... but you must ask yourself whether you take on their burdens willingly and consciously, or are you carrying extra weight because someone — figuratively speaking — left their burden at your doorstep, and you didn't have healthy boundaries enough to say "no, that's not mine to carry" when your own mental and emotional health depends on it.

These days, there are more people than ever going through one kind of hardship or another, so do remember to stay aware and awake of what you're agreeing to take on. Much as we may want to help every person who comes along with a "bleeding heart story," it's often simply not reasonable for us to take on everything.

Living a balanced life depends on learning when to politely say no.

Thanks for reading, and Bright Blessings to all!

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