The Orchestra of our Expressions creates balance…….

I had a conversation with a friend about the balance that people seem to strive for in their lives. The opinion of some might be that there is no real balance that can be created in our lives. The thought that there is always something that throws the teeter-totter up or down, it can not stay in balance and that is just life. Yet, we are all trying our best to be in balance. She beautifully expressed that perhaps there is no balance and never will be, perhaps it is more like musical instruments playing a song. Some are stronger and some are softer in their tones, they are never in balance, they simply all come together to create the song. I believe in the balance of nature of all things and I was curious about this analogy. As she spoke of this I saw, in my mind, a balance from another perspective.

I saw a picture of instruments, a beautiful picture of each person’s life as an orchestra. Each instrument as one expression of the whole self, playing from its own qualities. How sometimes we, as the conductor over all our instruments, may pay attention to one part of the orchestra, in order to perfect a particular piece of the song and then we move on to another, until all instruments being a part of the whole orchestra, come together to create a beautiful song. So I could agree that looking for balance in the liner sense of the teeter-totter was unrealistic in relation to the many parts of ourselves and our lives that we live. But, I could not help but to think that the balance comes when the conductor works with his many instruments in his orchestra to create a beautiful concert. Within the orchestration of the concert, balance is acheived by using all instruments within their own unique qualities. Understanding their strengths, their limitations and that not all instruments play at the same time all the time. The Conductor observes and directs from a place of outside the orchestra, as to help the instruments to come together as one.

We are the Conductor of our life, practicing, perfecting, rewriting, redoing, replacing, and practicing again. We create song after song after song. Some songs are happy, some are sad, some are melancholy, some are energetic, some are smooth. In the end we have our Concert, our life as we have created. The orchestra of our expressions creates balance, the balance is our concert! …… Steffi Jo