This is the sixteenth and final session of the eighth series of Lanzarote Sessions, transcribed during a break to the Canary Islands in December 2024. During our frequent visits, I sit in the power of the spirit at least once daily and allow the spirit-connect to share a message with me.
|| This summary written on 30th May 2025
It was Goethe who once said, “To know and not do, is to not know”. I’m guilty of that more often than I care to mention. But so are most people, if the truth be known. In many walks of our lives, we do things, or don’t, that we should, or shouldn’t have done. Hey, that’s life!
One such example I’m guilty of breaking the rules over is in living a balanced life. In particular, regarding my work. I spend far too much time working on my projects, such as with this website. The amount of hours I’ve been working on it would add up to several thousands by now. I enjoy the work, but it’s come at the cost of other jobs I should have spent some time doing, such as DIY around the home and in the garden.
That’s the type of trade-off we are all guilty of doing more often than we should. The stuff we enjoy doing gets our attention for longer than the stuff we hate doing! It’s a classic sign of abusing the balance of our lives. We do it with work and home, relationships and family, saving and spending, talking and silence, television and reading, and many more daily tasks we have as part of living.
I have preached to others many times about the importance of keeping our lives in balance, but I’ve not always practiced my words. I don’t believe we can always balance life, but being aware will keep us reminded to do it whenever we can. Sometimes, it’s worth us doing a stock check and making adjustments whereever we can. I tend to plan long term balance adjustments when I’m in Lanzarote, away from the busy life at home.
The speaker in this session picked up that I’d been giving thought to getting a better balance to my schedule and decided to use it as a topic for their helpful advice.
Some people might consider helpful advice, such as that in this session, as of limited value in becoming a more spiritual person. But personal health is important, whether on a biological level or a mental level is far more important than we often give it credit for.
THE SPIRIT INSIGHT
transcribed on Wednesday, 25th December 2024, at 1:30pm
We heard your request. You would like me talk to you about balance. That is a big topic! Simple rules, complicated by action.
Before I say a few words, I’m aware this is your last session with us before you return to your home far away. May I say what a pleasure it has been for us to work with you. Watching our words translate to print is quite something. Your success is assured and we hope you continue with it.
Now then, balance. Let me first define what that means and why it is so hard to achieve. Balance really entails everything in proportion. Moderated and equal to all other influences. You see, simple to define, yet difficult for people to Put into action.
People have this varying issue with attention span. When something is uninteresting it become a drudge. The mind loses focus more easily and distractions rule. Maybe they find there is something more interesting to do and they switch focus.
Yes, I’m describing you as well, I know. You see, this is where balance runs wrong. Balance involves discipline, focus and determination, no matter what the task is.
But the opposite balance is also a problem. When something is enjoyable to do and the person devotes too much attention to it, the balance goes wrong again.
You, my friend, have often talked in your words about balance, yet you are not practising what you preach. Balance, as I said, involves a determined discipline. To share the time available across all that is to be done. That is balance.
Balance is required in other aspects of life too. How much one needs to eat and drink. How much is to be spend with caring for the body. Sleep, rest, work and play. Nothing is so important in life that it should be allowed to dominate. That is not balance, that is obsession, and obsession is dangerous and unhealthy.
Eat enough, no more. Drink enough, no more, sleep, work, play, relax enough, but no more.
The man or woman that lives a balanced life is rich, often healthy, and lacking unachievable desires. But to achieve that status takes consistent work. A realisation that nothing is so important that it should throw your tender balance.
You know how much more energy it takes to walk with a limp, or a tight-fitting shoe. Life is the same. Solve the issue that effects the balance and maintain it every day.
Have I made sense this day? Have I given you some food for thought? Good. Balance is a simple process. Maintaining it in action is where the focus should be.
You’ll have a safe trip home and we look forward to when we are reunited for the purpose of these messages.
God bless you.
Goodbye.
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS
written at the time of this presentation
🔷 The problem I find with simple advice, such as this message, is that the message can often be easily ignored and considered as unimportant. Yet I’ve been told about the importance of balance more times than I can remember. I do believe, however, that the ‘drip drip’ messages do get through over time. As I mentioned in the preamble, I tend to make plans to adjust my schedules when I’m on holiday. My mind is clearer and there’s no pressing demands distracting me.
🔷 A parallel I’ve found connected with balance is decluttering. I’ve too much material stuff around me. Gadgets, computers, cameras, and lots of time consuming devices that, truthfully, I could do without. Recently, I started thinning down my book collection, giving several hundred to the local charity shops. With less clutter, I feel freer in mind, and with that comes more clarity to focus on balance.
🔷 If you noted the notes date, you’ll see it was written on Christmas day. We were on the last day of our three week stay and the first time we’d been away from the usual traditions. We had a meal at the Chinese restaurant for Christmas night and it was a wonderful experience to escape the usual routines. Disrupting traditional routines every now and then isn’t such a bad thing and serves to show what others are doing on such times. This was the last session for this series.
“Eat enough, no more. Drink enough, no more, sleep, work, play, relax enough, but no more.”
