Hey everyone, it's Rosie. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday.

I went to visit my little Abuelita in San Francisco over the holidays. She's almost

90 years old and she's still as sassy as she was in her younger years.

Albeit less mobile. I was sitting near the edge of her bed when she began

expressing how terrible it is to get old and how I need to enjoy my life as much

as I can because life is short and the world is slippery slick. This is one of

the many sayings she has and is an ancient wisdom from the Aztecs whose

history and philosophy were expressed in poetry. The phrase slippery slick

speaks to finding your footing in a world that is innately unstable. But if we

can navigate it with sufficient wisdom, then we can create a life of balance. I

know a tall order indeed. But over the years, mindfulness has taught me to do

just that. No matter how much was going on around me, my practice helped me

pause, see what was important, and to create a sort of dance between obligations

and my passions. It helped me find my footing, so to speak. So today, I'm going to

talk about how mindfulness can help you pause and create balance. Even when the

world is one big slippery slick. One of my favorite definitions of balance is

the Latin root word, ballard, which means to dance. And for me, utilizing that as

the definition to find balance in my life makes so much more sense because it's

hard to hold everything in equal parts. The amount of time we spend at work, the

amount of time we spend with our families, the amount of time that we spent on

our hobbies or our own mental health and well-being. There are only 24 hours in

the day. So how do we find balance with what we want to do and the things that we

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