Physical Education or P.E. was never my favorite class. I hated those stiff and ill-fitting white shirts and shorts. I never liked ball sports (my husband tells me all sports are ball sports) because I could never see the ball. It wasn't until college when I could satisfy my P.E. requirement with modern dance that I started to love movement. (As far as ‘uniforms, give me black tights any day!) After college I took up jogging and wish my body could still take the impact. But we all still need PE- Protein and Exercise. Each one of us needs both every day. My E-exercise now is walking and the elliptical. I probably have bored you plenty with descriptions of how protein versus sugar makes me feel. If you take anything away from our Balance Experiment, take PE -Protein and Exercise. Incorporate PE into your life every day, little by little if necessary.

My college Logic class, on the other hand, I loved. All those ‘If P, then Q' syllogisms. If P -all women are divine and you are a woman, Then Q- you are divine.  If we focus on Protein and Exercise, Then we will have Balanced Bodies. In short, If PE, Then BB.

One more letter game: TOTG. Turn Over To God. I'll be in the middle of some imagining, something I want to happen, like my dear friend Gail meeting the love of her life, and knowing someone I want to introduce her to and wondering, how can I make that happen, what can I do, and then I worry about it. STOP! TOTG. I forgot that God is waiting for us to give Him a job! I forgot that I can just turn my worries over to him, all of them, all of those little worrywarts running around in my head. Turn Over To God. He asks us to do that.

SPIRITUAL thought/action: "To maintain inner harmony it is essential for me to ransom at least an hour's worth of solitude out of every twenty-four and to defend this soul-sustaining respite against all intruders and distractions." We all need what Mary Sarton called ‘open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there'...to find "the delicate balance between our deepest personal passions and our commitment to family, friends, lovers, and work." Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance  Today I will add units of solitude.

PHYSICAL thought/action: Today I will add units of P-Protein and units of E-Exercise.

MENTAL thought/action: Today I will practice TOTG- Turn Over To God all my concerns, anxieties, fears, and desires.

EMOTIONAL thought/action: Today I will add units of happiness- whatever it is that makes me happy, I will give myself permission to enjoy.

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first BE who you really are, then, DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what you want." Margaret Young