Many of clients I see are ready for change because they have had some breakdown and need help. Divorce, termination, restructuring, health issues, etc. all set the wheels in motion to take action. It's true that breakdowns can lead to breakthroughs, but why wait until such a severe trauma, why not start today?

There is a natural human tendency to maintain the current homeostasis. This actually helps us survive trauma such as frostbite, hypothermia, fever, etc. It also keeps us in dysfunctional jobs, relationships and stuck in the muck. The interesting point is that even when we intellectually know what to do, we don’t do it.

Eating healthy, daily exercise and a overall positive energy are well known to steps on the path to balance and happiness, yet so many of us can’t maintain this course. You can read all the books you want about yoga, but until you take action to get on the mat nothing changes. It takes more than just “knowing what to do” to make serious changes in your life. Most drinkers, smokers and gamblers have a real heightened sense of the dangers of their habits, but are stuck and can’t move on. They are informed but still no change of behavior.

Long-term change can take place when 2 out of three of your balance points are engaged. Some combination of head, heart or hara is required to push you out of your comfort zone. A divorced mom with a broken heart that engages her body via training to run her first 10K race has real momentum to rebalance her entire life. You can read about the community issues but your life can shift when your heart opens with compassion as you touch an individual family. In general our lives have become too online, too intellectual, too out of balance. Actually physically doing something in the now vs. worrying about the future state makes all the difference. Giving up smoking is tough, but starting an exercise program in support of your wife’s breast cancer benefit will work small miracles. Add a heart or hara connection to your mind to change your life.

So what will it take to move you to action? Will you wait for a tragic event or be moved to act now. Head, heart and hara work the integral magic.

If not now, When?