Travis Ruskus uses rock balancing as a metaphor for inner calm. He explains how conscious breathing anchors you in the present moment instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, and how each balanced stone represents a moment of happiness and a test of your belief in yourself when things fall apart.
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, to 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. 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.
