A delicate balance

Balance is an art form. We can sometimes get caught up in wanting everything our own way and spending inordinate amounts of time trying to make it so. Alternatively we quickly reject something because it isn't 'ticking every box' instead of taking the overview and looking at the whole. In reality, the whole of life is a delicate balance. What happens here has an effect over there. Though we may feel we act independently we are in fact always at the mercy of cause and effect, some of the causes within our control and others not. Everything is in a state of flux and flow, action and reaction, with some shocks along the way.

This is the case with our personality too. It is not a static thing. There is movement. Though it is believed that we do not change our personality Type, our attitudes and behaviours do change depending on how we feel - whether we are feeling supported or unsupported, relaxed or stressed for example. And we can work on ourselves to be more aware of our reactions and actions, the choices we make and why we are making them. The more entrenched we are in our Type, the more out of balance we are because it must be remembered that our Type is where we are fixated so it is where we are stuck. But we have all the Types within us and the more we work on ourselves, the more aware and integrated we are, the more access we have to all the Types within us. So if necessary we can be conscientious like the One, compassionate like the Two, adaptable like the Three, emotionally honest like the Four, perceptive like the Five, committed like the Six, joyful like the Seven, confident like the Eight and accepting like the Nine. We become more balanced, able to access other parts of ourselves instead of being caught in a self-limiting pattern. Or, to put it another way, we have access to the full song sheet and can sing the whole song instead of a narrow, repetitive refrain.