By Shae Hadden | Bio
This New Year’s
Eve was a refreshing break from the past for me: a friend and I went to
a local hall to listen to a concert of Buddhist chants and instrumental
music while we walked the indoor labyrinth. The hall was crowded,
filled with adults seriously intent on purposeful walking. Two little
girls were dancing and skipping the labyrinth together—one following
the other. Whenever they encountered an obstacle (that is, an adult
moving slowly), they would weave around whoever was in their path.
While all the adults were focused on meditating or intensely
concentrating on their ‘experience’, these two girls were laughing and
smiling, joyously taking whatever life placed in front of them at their
pace, slip-sliding in their socks all the way to the centre and back
out again. What struck me was not only that all the adults
looked as if they carried the weight of the world on their shoulders,
but that they took three times as long to do one circuit.[ Read More]
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By Shae HaddenBio
I’ve had some further insights since my last post about Balance. No matter what the extent of my commitments, I see ‘balance’ as my
ability to be ‘grounded’ and ‘present’. In each moment, I’m doing what
I’m doing…and just that. Nothing else. The whole idea of ‘balancing
work and life’, as if they are polar opposites, makes no sense to me.[ Read More]
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By Shae Hadden
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Finding balance in life has been a concern of mine for a long time.
From the number of times it comes up in conversation, it appears to be
a major concern for many others as well. My struggle for balance came
to a head recently with a series of inexplicable dizzy spells.
Admittedly, I’ve been running non-stop since my mother passed away
suddenly two years ago—abandoning a work situation where I felt
inspired but unappreciated, leaving a 20-year relationship with my
husband to find out who I was and to find opportunities to grow,
abandoning my self-care practices to commit myself fully to my career,
taking no ‘time out’ to rest or recoup. I left behind my sense of
security and let go of my connections to the past—even changing my
name. The race I’ve been running and the choices I’ve made have often
left me feeling ‘unbalanced’ and disoriented.
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I was surprised to sit down to dinner at a restaurant last night and
look up to see a table full of women boldly wearing red hats sitting
across from me. Few people wear hats these days, fewer still with any
sense of style. Yet these ladies, members of the Red Hat Society, were obviously comfortable with themselves and sassy enough to carry it off.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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