Discovering my Tao

Today I had my schedulled 6 monthly followup appointment with my doctor. Fortunately all numbers turned out to be good and I was happy. It seems like finally I have figured out how to keep my blood pressure and sugar on track. Few years back due to job uncertainity and other related tensions, it started reflecting in my blood pressure and sugar. Things seemed to start going out of control little to early for my age. My doctor would give me a hard time each time I saw her for physical. Then I started working with myself. Physical workout and mind training helped, but I had to customize quite a bit before I got the result I wanted. These days insurance companies have lowered the numbers for tolerable blood pressure and sugar levels and so if somebody wasn't diagnosed for high blood pressure or sugar until yesterday would suddenly find oneself in pre-hypertesion or pre-diabetic category. I had to patiently work with myself in terms of workout, eating habits etc. until I got the results I wanted. Fortunately my doctor was patient enough not to put me on medication right away. I went through cycle of ups and downs to finally arrive at a workable solution. Patience is the key. For a person who is living a normal life, usually small changes or fine tuning is needed. No radical changes in lifestyle would be needed unless one is living quite unbalance life. With small changes in my lifestyle I still enjoy my drinks and desserts on weekends and I also enjoy my workout. So my findings are that for something to work one has to have patience to experiment with it, maintain balance avoiding any kind of excess and finally feel good about it. It has to fit with one's lifestyle pattern - such as job, family needs etc. Then only one will be able to keep up with it, otherwise either one won't be able to continue or feels lot of friction trying to keep up with it. That is the way of Tao. It's different for everyone and left for one to figure out. When one is living according to Tao, life is easier. When one is living against Tao, life is difficult. Tao is like flowing water. It is difficult for one who tries to go upstream but easier for one who is going downstream. The whole thing is choosing the right direction. Then it is practically effortless because water itself will carry one. It is out there but left for everyone to discover for themselves...