House of Balance

What the House of Balance has taught me me in 2023

They say that entrepreneurship is a rapid pathway to self/spiritual development. They would be correct. The businesses lessons are your lessons - in your face, every day. And this piece has been a BIG piece for me.

The House of Balance has always been a leap of faith, a frightful leap in the dark prompted by a sacred knowing that (I may be crazy but...) I am exactly in the right place, at the right doing, doing what I was sent here to do. In 2023 between Davos and COP 28, we hosted 350 private investors, 137 Institutional investors, 221 corporate leaders, 52 government officials, & 225 NGOs. I'm impressing even myself at this point because we were running entirely on volunteer fumes, but yes it happened. It's real, and the leap in the dark becomes light in the material realm.

And when the first 4 core team began by naming the 'entity', we agreed on House of Balance - not out of a deep conviction and understanding of the word BALANCE, but because it resonated as 'right' and it was neutral enough to hold everything. For me it felt like the color beige. Meh - it's fine enough. But it had a certain vibration to explore...

Fast forward two years into my own journey and lessons - BALANCE has been the word of the year. I am now beginning to scratch the surface of the richness that is BALANCE and it's no beige thing. It's more crystalline in structure - the central point of all colors.

We generally see Balance a teeter-totter, and we humans enjoy a great pendulum ride. Oh the adrenaline and power it brings to have a big swing! Here are a few common examples of imbalance:

1. I'm leaving my high powered corporate job behind in order to become a FT coach and healer. No NPC slave life for me!
2. I'm going to make loads of money first, and buy a few cars, and then direct my efforts to doing positive things for the planet.
3. I'm going to become a spirit shaman/teacher/preacher and reach the highest level of purity possible, to the point where I not only cut out meat, I cut out food and s*x entirely and never p**p.
4. I'm going to save the entire planet with my thingamajig tech device wonder. The future of the universe is in my hands.

Jeez - this is not only stressful but often has consequences linked with physical unwellness and personal relationship isolation.

In my life, I have often wanted to make decisions between "this or that", moving right or left. And now the beautiful gift of BALANCE does away with the identity/ego issues that create extremes and ultimately suffering. In the middle of right and left is the center point of balance ; the resting place of the human experience. I know this is nebulous but bear with me.

I don't need to choose! I don't have to disidentify or disengage with anyone. I don't have to identify as anyone or with anything! I can remain at the point of ZERO, the point of BALANCE. I am NO ONE and EVERYTHING - at the point where EVERYTHING INTERSECTS in the cosmic web of life. WHO I AM doesn't actually matter! We're like a bunch of method actors who are taking part in a massive production and completely fail get out of character at the end of the movie. Our ego got hypnotized into believing that we are actually the character. It's a play, so don't forget to PLAY.

Ok so to bring this philosophical thought right back down to the ground:

The Basics: I am a human being - a balance of animal and divine, a fusion of biology and life force essence. I don't have to deny my biology and humanity or my divine heart. I am equally both, and I must live as such in order to maintain my own health in agreement with reality.

I don't have to become such a spiritual personality that I don't allow myself to ever look stupid or silly in public.. or have normal biological needs and functions like everyone else. I would be denying my very nature and thus be out of balance. (Or to cuss, I don't trust people who don't cuss). This persona would be supremely annoying to have to maintain.

I don't have to be so wealthy ($10M+) and 'successful' that the wealth burdens me, by creating a whole other list of management tasks, pressures, and family worries. This imbalance creates stress and isolation. I don't have to leave traditional institutions behind and live a life of struggle, so that I live in true conscious alignment. I can create bridges of change in a gentle way for myself and others that allow me to live well and create meaningful life changes in myself and others.

I am a central creation point of consciousness and everything in life moves with me, as with everyone else. We are fractals, reflection of one another and of the divine inspiration. We move as a swarm and your thoughts are also the thoughts and feelings of others. So move! ... knowing that we are one. Move with compassionate, and tenderness for yourself and others in BALANCE.

I don't need to save the planet. If I fail, 10 others will take my place. Many are are tuned into the same cosmic radio station and heading in the same direction. We are functioning as one...we just keep forgetting it. The pressure is fabricated. The PLAY is the real deal.

So my lesson was : do not let anyone else's desires or expectations allow me to lose my balance. Just because some people are still reading lines from their movie script, doesn't mean that I need to take on the character they're expecting me to play. I can honor my own biology. I can honor my own divine spark and not discredit either aspect of my being. I can move through life as play and accomplish a lot simultaneously. I can do a lot at the same time, but not if I push myself to any extremes. I can live in a point of balance. BALANCE is the reset button.

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In Davos, during the WEF, we hosted 3 days of programmes around balancing masculine and feminine leadership traits within ourselves and our businesses. There were many neural pathways created or rewired during that event as we seek a deeper and more complete understanding of how we can show up as whole and thriving humans for better creation and vision. We look forward to creating even more beautifully next year