Life is a perfectly balanced mix of pleasure and pain. You can not have one side of the coin without the other. Somehow our minds tend to seek the pleasure and wish to avoid the pain. When we can accept that pleasure and pain exist in association with one another, then the pain part is far easier to tolerate. Remembering that they are two sides of the same coin, and therefore go hand in hand makes it easier not to attach to pleasure.

This time of the year is a time for merry making and festivity, for family time and celebration, as well as for Summer holidays. Enjoy all that this  offers and smile when it hurts. Thank the pain for making the pleasure possible. Pain can come in the form of irritating family members, badly behaved children, disappointing results, goodbyes and much more. Watch and see how perfectly in  balance it all is.

So I wish you and your family peace this holiday season. I wish you presence and acceptance too. Thank you for all your support in 2011 and I look forward to sharing more learning, wellness, healing and stillness with you  in the famed year of 2012.