Your balancing act
One feature I frequently observe about my clients - those who have non-specific illnesses that is - is that they have unbalanced lifestyles.
Obvious catches are that they focus too much on making money. Or being 'perfect' parents. Or that they spend too much time chasing other people. Or too much time alone.
Narrow-mindedness is a Headmind trap typically linked to the human weakness for what I have elsewhere called 'bananas'.
Another way to put this is that when we become obsessional we become joyless. We also reduce the emotional rewards available to us - which leads, eventually, to reduced endorphin release in the brain.
A narrowing of interests leads to boredom, routine, repetition and a loss of creativity. Which, in turn, triggers a reduction in brain neuroplasticity.
Finally, an unbalanced lifestyle reduces our access to personal genius: We become less than we could be - and far more predictable.
You can do a rough check on how balanced your life is right now by having a look at the wheel of life diagram at the top. Going round each of the sectors, give yourself a score out of 10 for how much interest you take in that area of life (you have to be really honest here).
For a well-balanced life you need to be scoring at least '5' for each item. The higher your scores the higher your self-actualizing potential (provided the score for any one sector is not too far ahead of any of the others).



