Body in Balance by Mariette Lobo

04/01/2026

What you do in this moment will affect your future.

Sounds obvious, right?

If you eat a sandwich now it'll affect your hunger in the future.
If you walk to somewhere now you'll get to your destination in the future.

Only, what we do now isn't just physical.

What we think now will also affect our future.

If you think "woe is me, my life sucks and I just want things to be different" the future will continue to reflect woe, suckiness and wanting things to be different.

If you think "I'm doing everything I can right now. I'm eating, I'm sleeping, I'm taking care of THIS moment with kindness and compassion", then your future will continue to have kindness and compassion.

So, what are you doing right now?

Are you thinking and judging your life?
Or are you grateful and serving your current moment you're in?

THIS moment, this very moment, is the most important moment of your life, because it's the only moment where you can change or choose something, or interact with, or observe!

So what you observe in this moment is of primary importance to your future happiness.

Do what serves you, right here, right now. Often, it means doing nothing! It means resting, it means breathing and meditating, it means giving yourself love and space, it means being KIND to yourself, it means noticing those judgmental thoughts and letting them go.

If you do this, continually, moment to moment, you discover life is wonderful, healthy and abundant.

So, what are you up to, right now, and especially, in that mind of yours?

21/12/2025

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19/12/2025

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Don't sweat the small stuff.

Things like broken ornaments, traffic jams, ruined food, or rain hitting your window. You know the things I mean!

Each moment is giving us the opportunity to see how we respond to it, and it highlights whether we respond in judgment (annoyance, bothery-ness, anger, criticism etc.) or love (gratitude, joy, peace, calm, humour).

Which are you? And how often do you respond in the same way?

When something 'small' happens that might be an inconvenience, laugh at it all with great gusto and give gratitude to it. It's informed you there's still judgment and annoyance in you, and it's not really about the thing that happened, it's about your past, so that's really cool it's highlighting something for you. Breathe with the annoyance, smile at it, and calm yourself back to the present moment.

Even small 'letting go's' like this will build over time to create a new, healthier you with more love and less judgment, more awareness and less ego.

So, look at the small things, the things that won't matter in a day, or two, or a week, or even a year, and smile with them.

Then they lose their hold over you, and you become much more accepting of what happens to you.

15/12/2025

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Don't sweat the small stuff.

Things like broken ornaments, traffic jams, ruined food, or rain hitting your window. You know the things I mean!

Each moment is giving us the opportunity to see how we respond to it, and it highlights whether we respond in judgment (annoyance, bothery-ness, anger, criticism etc.) or love (gratitude, joy, peace, calm, humour).

Which are you? And how often do you respond in the same way?

When something 'small' happens that might be an inconvenience, laugh at it all with great gusto and give gratitude to it. It's informed you there's still judgment and annoyance in you, and it's not really about the thing that happened, it's about your past, so that's really cool it's highlighting something for you. Breathe with the annoyance, smile at it, and calm yourself back to the present moment.

Even small 'letting go's' like this will build over time to create a new, healthier you with more love and less judgment, more awareness and less ego.

So, look at the small things, the things that won't matter in a day, or two, or a week, or even a year, and smile with them.

Then they lose their hold over you, and you become much more accepting of what happens to you.

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20/11/2025

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Joy is spontaneous.

It is of the moment.

How is your joy? Do you look at things with awe, reverence and gratitude?

Completely absorbed; immersed with a flower, a tree, a river, a waterfall, the sun on your face, or even the rain on you, or the soft silence of falling snow?

Do you see rays of sunshine pierce through windows, to shine on walls in a room? Do you feel the in and out breath, the source of life, each moment, keeping your body and consciousness within you?

When you look around at the world in this pure way, you become joy.

Everything is here to guide you to this realisation: that you are one with everything. You are not separate. This is not about a you versus something/someone, and if it is, you've lost the magic. You are fighting existence itself, which is really you, so you are fighting yourself! This creates a lot of suffering for you, your body and your mental fitness.

Growling at the weather is fighting the weather.
Moaning at yourself or your body's failings is fighting you and your body.
Judging or criticising others is merely projecting out your own inner judgment about life onto someone else. It's easier to blame others than look at your own reactions.

The shift into awareness, the movement into and of the present moment, drops all of these growls/moans/judgments, and you simply exist, in gratitude and love for everything - not because you're trying to look at things with positivity (another thought) - but because that is what you ARE.

Sit right now, close your eyes, and BREATHE. Feel that delicious air entering your body, nourishing you, giving you life, giving you movement and energy.

Smile, and then open your eyes and LOOK. Really look. Look at the amazingness of forms around you.

At some wondrous moment of insight, you will become joy, and you will understand that all these thoughts are momentary; all these emotions and fears are momentary; all the problems in your life are momentary.

It all starts with being where you are, in total, complete acceptance of your life, with full awareness of it. All the woe, all the angst, all the judgments...watch them without using them...just allow them to roar up, scream, then die down. What remains is the real you, the real joy, the complete silent and unmoving, luminous beingness: this is health, vitality, peace and joy looking back at itself.

13/11/2025

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Be aware about projecting into the future:

"This is going to be a difficult week";
"I don't know how I'm going to get through the next few days";
"I'll be happy once these days are over"

and so on.

How do you know what the future is going to hold? You don't.

But your unconscious mind will formulate a judgment or opinion on a future to come purely based on past experiences.

Instead of this unconscious behaviour, NOTICE it!

Come back into your being of the HERE and NOW.

There is no difficulty in the present moment. You simply ARE, and breath is happening, heart is beating, feelings are coming (and going), thoughts are coming (and going).

What we think is going to be difficult is often ok when taken moment by moment. A huge hill might look difficult from the bottom, but when you take each step with awareness, with mindfulness, you reach the top without any problem.

So, notice if you're projecting worries into the future - and if so - bring your focus back to awareness of the present moment.

Don't delay your happiness until something is 'over'. Vibrate fully into the full conscious, dimensional being you are.

You just need to observe and be ok with the moment.

Can you do it?