Travis Ruskus uses rock balancing as a mindfulness practice to stay present through conscious breathing. He frames each failure as a test of belief, and credits the practice with helping him avoid reactive behaviors like sending angry emails.
A lot of what we do in our daily life is getting caught up in the past or worrying about the future. And if you can just breathe, it's almost like a little poke you give yourself to say, "Here you are right now." And that alone has allowed me to save a lot of the angry emails that I would write if things weren't working out or something. It just kind of take a breath and just be like, "Okay, no, this is the moment right now of something didn't go your way. And I believe that every failure is a test to see how much you truly believe in something. And ultimately, with rock balancing, all it is is finding the point within yourself of when you're happy.
