Striking Balance with Balance

On This Walk

For the longest time, I believed that the whole idea of living a balanced life where your entire day is compartmentalized was total nonsense. Speaking from personal experience, I knew that no matter how hard you tried to stay on course, life would always get in the way and alter your routine. I was convinced that balance was an illusion until I realized that my understanding of balance and freedom were incorrect.

To expand on that, today I am inviting back someone who you have seen here before on ‘On This Walk’. Matt Hogan has an endless fascination and devotion to the path of self-mastery in living an aligned life. His own personal journey of mastering his life through a growing connection with his own inner teacher and guidance has forged the foundation for what inspires and propels him. I am hoping that it will inspire you and many others as well.

In This Episode

• (10:17) – Matt’s perspective on balance based on his journey and experience.
• (13:57) – Matt’s misguided relationship with balance prior to mastering it.
• (24:46) – Striking the right balance between being and doing.
• (32:32) – Identifying forces within that create less balance.
• (35:07) – Seeking answers from the body and the heart.
• (41:21) – Matt’s take on stability as the inner path to balance and peace.
• (44:17) – Recognizing inner structures and its connection with stability.
• (47:45) – On making major shifts in orientation to life and its impact.
• (58:16) – Restoring Balance, a program to make life more aligned and at peace.
• (59:28) – How to tell when life is in balance or not.

Notable Quotes

• “This is then finding that balance between being and doing, which I also didn't have a great understanding of because I was always so active. And so there was never space to just simply be and then allow whatever needed to unfold, to unfold. Or when you can be in that spaciousness and content to just be in that spaciousness. You can begin to connect to things that are more deeply aligned because you're seeing and feeling them beneath all the mind chatter, beneath the need to be doing, beneath the need to answer other people about what you're doing. And you connect to these more authentic answers and insights or directions. And then you do, and then you take action, then you move something forward and you don't just go for the next 10 years. You move something forward a little bit and then you stop again. And you pause and you be, and you start to more fluidly move through the being and doing until there is a partnership, there is a dance between them that works very well.” – Luke (22:36)

• My first orientation to life when I was 18 was that life was scary. It was scary to be alive than to be dead. I literally oriented through life that everyone was out to get me. I was weak. I was powerless. And there was nothing I could do to change it. Over time, going through university and all the different material expressions of my life, university, being engaged, corporate life, all those things, my internal experience and my self-concept started to shift. The essence though that has pulled me these past two decades when I really started to look at it differently was that I was about rising up and overcoming pain but when I really stop to look at it, there is another lens that works too. All this time I have been remembering how to love myself. I’ve been remembering how to love life. I’ve been remembering how to enjoy life. To love other people. To have other people love me. To enjoy my time here. To find magic in the moment. To really being able to wake up and go, ‘Damn I’m happy to be alive.’” – Matt (49:11)

Resources & Links

On This Walk

• https://www.facebook.com/dlukeiorio
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukeiorio/
• https://instagram.com/dlukeiorio
• https://instagram.com/onthiswalkshow

Matt Hogan

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-hogan-44b5b869/
• https://www.facebook.com/Theworldwidefearconversation/
• https://matthoganworldwide.medium.com/