A Yin Yang Dance

In everything lately I see this ache for balance between softness and strength. It's the yin and yang dancing between the light and shadows so vividly these days. With politics this year, the hope and the deceit. It's always there, this balance but lately it's been so brilliantly broadcasted between the resent heartbreaking violence and the need for play expressed by Pokemon's wild infiltration in the world... And with it has come the judgement on those who play by those who chose to wave an angered fist in the air at the injustices. Along with a mirrored judgement by those that unplug towards those that feel a passionate need to act. Life, perception and circumstance could make a person hard, angered, stern, direct, prejudice and punishing. It could also create intense needs to unplug, let lose, detach and not care because "why?". Firm structured strength and soft freedom seeking. But there can be both. Simultaneously. Serious and play. Respectful and imaginative. Hard. Soft. Yang. Yin. There can be both because there is both. We all slip into this dance and find ourselves in moments of light or shadows... But just as important to remember so does every human, stranger, friend or foe. In times like these it's judgement on others for being one side of an opposite that is the hard to watch and find myself too experiencing. The strong judgement on others is a delusion to an individual's perception that they have none in themselves of what it is they judge so harshly in another... Or a shame and personal persecution for an eluding belief that they are not what is good because the opposing impression of bad is all they know themselves to be. So in these times where opinions are flying and lines of separation are being drawn I look at the nature of existence and remember. When there is coldness be warmth. Where there is hate be love. Where there is chaos be peace. And if you cannot find these things within yourself for a time... A time when inevitably you may happen to feel lost in darkness remember to seek out light. When you feel hardened by coldness as if it could swallow you whole look for warmth to sit by and take in it's glow. In intense chaos find a place in the nature of this vast and glorious earth, breathe and witness peace from outside yourself until you remember that too is within you... It all exists in you. Practice balancing self and see balance ripple into the world around you. And know each human has this same struggle. Allow yourself the patients to feel compassion for whom feels broken enough to only know/see what is broken... And then be hope.