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Recent Experiments in Strength
Recently for some variety (somewhat same but different) I ran two experimental programs back to back that tied into each other. I thought I’d share them for anyone who might be looking for ways to shake things up a little. The Turkish Get-Up ...
Achieve Happiness by Awakening to Your Belief System
photo credit: zoutedrop Belief rules the world you and I live in. Humans have beliefs about all manner of things and it is our beliefs that determine for you and I what is and is not possible in our lives. The beliefs we hold dictate how we rea...
Getting Things Done – The Essence of Effective Action
photo credit: alancleaver_2000 This is a guest post by Mark Harrison who writes for a number of self improvement sites. Check out his latest book, Thirty Days to Change Your Life. Life can sometimes seem like an assault course. People are forev...
Fundamental Principles of Health & Wellness
Today’s video blog post focuses on two fundamental health and wellness principles that are absolutely critical. If you wish to enjoy health, wellness and a high quality of life it is vital that you learn and apply the basic principles discussed in...
Health & Wellness Video Blogging Begins
photo credit: stefanravn After a kettlebell workout on Wednesday I decided to film an impromptu video to briefly introduce myself. I’m excited by the challenge of expanding Balanced Existence into video blogging so as to connect more closely with...
Ready, Fire, Aim!
photo credit: eyeliam The very beginning of Balanced Existence was an experiment in the “Ready, Fire, Aim!” concept. At the time I had become inspired to start my own blog and to begin sharing with you things that I found interesting and he...
Balanced Existence Joins Forces with the OpenSky Project
Balanced Existence (BE) is and always will be about helping those who both need and want help. Through Balanced Existence I’ve been able to turn the worse times of my life into the greatest of blessings. If you happen to be in a negative situatio...
Undefined Abstraction
photo credit: bensonkua He who defines himself, can’t know who he really is. If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto. If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve. My ...
Words to Live By
photo credit: Matthew Fang Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happ...
Workout of the Day
The most repeatedly asked questions in regards to exercise more often than not refer to exercise programming or protocols. For example, your response to articles here on Balanced Existence such as The Connection Between Human History and Your Health ...
Consciousness Expansion
I like to think of my consciousness as a circle drawn on a piece of paper. Within the circle is all the knowledge, understanding about life and existence and everything that I have experienced and come to accept as possible, real and normal within my...
The Connection Between Human History and Your Health
Evolution is the scientific paradigm that governs biology. As biological organisms we are thus governed by evolution. This means our requirements in regards to diet, exercise, sunlight, and general lifestyle in order to survive and even flourish is p...
Winter Travels & Thoughts That Come Full Circle
It is a very useful skill to be able to clearly reappraise one's present situation in life and the current sense of direction and purpose. I've always been struck by the sense that my life could be very limited if I failed to be creative enough to th...
Signs Your Diet is Right for You – Part 2
In the first part of this article I introduced the idea that our medical systems are sick systems not health systems. They are systems in which disease and death are studied furiously. However, studying illness, sickness and disease tells us very lit...
How to Manipulate Other People
Elegantly a positive outcome is the only possible outcome of this type of “manipulation” of others. No one is purposely going to be an asshole so that they can suffer to live amongst assholes. Using this principle no one is going to self-inflict ...
Non-Dualistic Thoughts on Suffering
It would be a mistake to attempt to block out suffering or create mental distance from suffering. In fact this is the opposite of what I have experienced and come to understand. Trying to do so will most likely simply cause more suffering. What I’v...
Cultivating an Awareness of Existence
As individual human beings in a sense we tend to be highly centralized on ourselves, fixated and almost entirely caught up by whatever is going on at the moment. By being caught up all the time we lose valuable perspective in regards to what is impor...
Relaxation of Mind and Body
Relaxation is the absence of unnecessary effort. Resistance to situations and the flow of existence is unnecessary effort. Resistance is non-freedom. This so because resistance is reactionary. Anything reactionary is bound to events. If one is bound ...
To Have Self-Discipline You Must Practice It
Exercise is a perfect setting for the practice of multilevel planning and self-discipline. First you need an overarching goal. If it is something like “get fit” or “lose some weight” you’re going to fail. You will not actually be able to de...
How to Successfully Complete a Uniquely Complex Undertaking
A subject I’m currently studying as part of a Master of Technology (Business Systems Design & Management) degree is Business Systems Project Management. In doing so I’ve come to understand the importance of methodologies, the importance of p...
Thoughts on Freedom & Creativity
I've been listening to a talk given by Eckhart Tolle and thinking about the nature of conditioning. The question is - how can a human being enjoy personal freedom and really live life instead of stumbling through life asleep at the wheel? In the gene...
How to Stop Struggling Through Life
No matter what triviality you loose yourself momentarily in there is only this. Just this. So in moments of deep connection, enjoy it. Revel in it. And do so by simply being completely there and present with it. Don’t judge. Don’t compare. Don’...
How to Overcome Your Shyness
How to overcome shyness is to realize shyness is not the opposite of confidence.ShareThis...
The Story of the Buddha - Part 2
In the Buddha’s renunciation of the world lies the key theme of the story of his life and perhaps the very core idea of Buddhism. Gautama’s upbringing was such that it gave rise to his radical miss-perception of things. The gap between the way he...
The Story of the Buddha - Part 1
When discussing the life of the Buddha the words ‘story’ or ‘account’ are commonly used. This is because there is no verifiable factual data regarding his life. So the story of the life of the Buddha or Awakened One who realized the Dharma: ...
On Fats and Fiction
What a busy time the New Year has been! If you’re anything like me and 99% of the rest of the population you ate and drank more of the things you and your body both know you shouldn’t over the Christmas and the New Year period. It always starts o...
Thanks!
I hope everyone has had a safe and enjoyable Christmas holiday season. I want to thank you for taking the time to read Balanced Existence. Hopefully you have benefited or at least been entertained as much as I enjoyed writing for Balanced Existence e...
The Truth About What it Takes to Build and Maintain a Healthy Heart
Heart disease continues to rank as both the number one disease and the number one cause of death. This is because the heart health advice we’ve tried to follow for 40 years is just plain wrong.ShareThis...
Meditation, Experiencing Life, and Getting Back on the Horse
My meditation practice is simple. I sit and be the sky. This begins with slowing down. Achieved by centering the mind on one physical sensory input. In this case the feeling of the breath at the rim of the nostrils. Breath and mind gradually merge. T...
The Balanced Existence Challenge
I’m very excited to announce, beginning next month, I will be starting the Balanced Existence Challenge. The challenge is essentially a program of eating, exercise and meditation designed to accommodate my full-time university study and writing com...
