Vibr8 asks the question: How is it possible to live life in such a way that one is not swayed by external stressors? Who will answer?

Date:   7/17/2005 7:01:13 PM ( 19 y ago)

Sometimes it takes me days and days of being "out of sorts" to realize that I'm simply out of balance and need to get balanced. Something that's always worked to get me balanced quickly: Acupuncture.

Well, I felt a little bit out of sorts for most of last week. I was at my office earlier this afternoon, still feeling out of sorts. An Acupuncturist who has an office nearby dropped in and said, "You look flushed." She offered to give me an Acupuncture treatment, and I had the good sense to accept her offer.

It was very helpful. Just having the opportunity to lie still in one place and listen to healing, relaxing music during the treatment was an added gift.

Readers, how do you get balanced? How do you know when you're out of balance? Are you sensitive to your "indicators"? I thought I was, but I have known for days that I was imbalanced, and did nothing about it, just going on with my daily activities as if everything were aok.

Do you ever do that?

The imbalance can only continue if one does not take action to get balanced.

Just after the Acupuncture treatment I decided to check my office mail. I found that I was still being billed for services TWO MONTHS after returning a Credit Card Processing machine back to the company it came from. I tried calling the company that's been continuing to draw money out of my checking account for 2 months since I discontinued services.

Of course,like many businesses these days, the guy there wasted no time in putting the blame on me. As assertively and clearly as possible I explained to this guy that I had followed the company's representative's instructions exactly when I discontinued services 2 months ago. He said there was no record of my discontinuance fax being received. I know I sent it, and my fax machine said it was received. A guy with the original company I got the charge card acceptance machine from had acknowledged receipt of the fax, which was also sent to the separate company that bills me.

Since my fax machine said it was received, I assumed all was proceeding normally. One should never assume such things, I guess.

I did lose my temper just a bit with this guy on the phone. A memory creeped into my psyche at this point, of the lovely and relaxing Acupuncture treatment I had just stepped out of. Not wanting to lose that treasured balance, I quickly ended the conversation, without reaching resolve.

I stopped to calm my body and mind through a brief meditation session. I returned to my office and found the email exchanges about the credit card machine from 2 months ago. I sent off an email to the guy from the original company. I re-sent the original discontinuance notice to the billing company.

I left a phone message for the guy at the originating company.

This was all I could do on a Sunday. If I could remember the name of the person I spoke with at the billing company today, it would be lovely to call and apologize for losing my temper. I do not remember his name at all, however.

After all of this, I went about completing a few necessary errands. I noticed that my body and mind were calm. Thank heavens I noticed that I was sliding into imbalance, and meditated immediately to maintain/ reinstate my balance.

In the best of all possible worlds, I could have come home and relaxed after the Acupuncture treatment. That would have been the ideal way to assimilate the treatment's positive effects.

I am home now, and am stll enjoying positive effects from the treatment.

I wonder if it's possible to live life in a way where one is not so swayed by external stressors?

Peace to you,
~vibr8

 

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