we are never balanced, we are always balancing

This is a silhouette of a slackliner. I was originally introduced to slacklining through climbing over a decade ago. Slacklining is stringing a lenght of tubular webbing between two points tightly. You then walk across it like a tight rope. The big difference is it moves a lot, as you move forward, the webbing bows down stretching slightly, it also can move side to side. Dealing with the degrees of freedom that the slackline creates is an incredible challenge to balance and a heck of a lot of fun. Without getting too deep the comment has been made that slacklining parallels life. The line is still until you engage it, if you can find your center you can move smooth between two points, but if you shift too much or too quickly, it becomes difficult to return to a stable center.

I started thinking about slackling after rereading through my Circular Strength Training Instructor manual. Over the last couple of years, I've amassed quite a few manuals from all the certifications and workshops I've gone through. I've done two levels of the RKC and assisted once, I've done CST (as mentioned earlier), three levels of zhealth with a fourth on the way, plus all the undergrad and graduate courses. I feel lucky to have been able to get a lot of use and tons of information from everything I've done but with all the information I've accumulated I have yet to fully assimilate it all. It will be some time before I'm able to do that. At some point in the near future I plan on outline some of the benefits I feel I've gained by going through those different systems. Every so often I like to reread the manuals to refresh and renew. Today I picked up CST and started going through it and came across quote found in this post's title. It really resonated with me today. Everything we do provides some sort of disruption to our equilibrium, the body may strive to maintain homeostasis but very little if anything in life is static. Whether it's balancing work and family, exercise and restoration, calories in versus calories out, the goals of tomorrow versus the details of the past. Change may be inevitable but it's the balance in life we create that dictates how well we can guide the changes that occur. If we swing too far one way we must swing back eventually, it's the choices that we make that determine whether the return will be voluntary or not. Look at what your goals are but always remember there's going to be some tradeoffs. The goals may have your focus but blinders only really work well for horses and even that's temporary.