Travis Ruskus uses rock balancing as a metaphor for finding inner equilibrium. He describes how conscious breathing keeps you present instead of stuck in regrets or anxieties, and how treating failures as tests of your real commitment shifts you from self-criticism to curiosity.
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, and 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.
