A theme: “first, do no harm”

A theme has emerged from my first set of posts on this Shrine that I have not focused on to date as part of Balanced Positive:

first, do no harm

The posts that contributed to me attaining that perspective were: 

• “A consultation: Athena”   https://shrineofbalancedpositivity.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-consultation-athena.html      

• “Balance across time”   https://shrineofbalancedpositivity.blogspot.com/2025/02/balance-across-time.html      

• “Diversity (potentially) provides balance; diversity with discernment (likely) provides a balanced positive”   https://shrineofbalancedpositivity.blogspot.com/2025/02/diversity-potentially-provides-balance.html   In light of this theme, I would probably rewrite the third last paragraph as follows:   “So ... use our discernment - our skills, knowledge, and experience - to [prevent] known [or anticipatable] problems, which enables the diversity to be refined into a mix that will be all - or at least predominantly - options that have potential value/benefit.”     
  

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

7^th February, 2025 

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A consultation: Athena

From time to time, I will work Athena on matters of strategy, and I thought it might be useful to obtain Her input on the topic of balanced positive.

Now, this is not automatic writing - there was more of a conversation which cannot be easily presented that way, so I refer to this as a consultation. 

And the results of that consultation were:

Balanced Positive means don’t create unnecessary problems when planning an action or set of actions - don’t, for example, use savagery or brutality (on any level - it is not only physical despots who do that) as that will come back on oneself in some way (possibly years later), don’t do personally abusive things like trying to break people or exert dominance (a particular flaw in police and other paramilitary organisations) as you then both lose the best of those you are breaking/dominating and creating only hate, not respect, and don’t allow harm to occur as a result of indifference or pickiness about personal responsibility.

From this, and some other recent posts, I can see a theme that I have not focused on to date as part of Balanced Positive: 

don’t create avoidable problems

In other words, be thorough, thoughtful, and as skilful as possible when planning or considering something - when an action, an inaction, or something else. 

Perhaps that can be better expressed as: 

first, do no harm

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

7^th February, 2025 

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Balance across time

This is a quick post to get an idea recorded - I will try to come back and explore this properly when I have time and energy, but events elsewhere are about to take all my attention.

Following on from recent posts, another dimension that can be used as a frame for thinking about balanced positive is that of time. 

The simplest way of approaching that is considering that should one make a mistake, it may be possible to remedy that later in the same life. 

That mistake could include manifesting toxic positivity.

Of course, the remedy may need sustained, deliberate effort to address all harm done,and may be incomplete or otherwise imperfect.

Thinking about the principle of balanced positive, and other principles such as equity etc, may shorten any timeframes involved - until the correction may be at almost same time, and ultimately one may acheive the ideal of avoiding the harm and just doing the BPM immediately. 

 

This is NOT the concept of karma: karma - to simplify - considers aspects of justice and taking personal responsibility for the effects of one’s actions (good, as well as bad), not balance. I have found many westerners use karma as an excuse to engage in spiritual bypassing, and the concept has been perverted into victim blaming too often, and thus I tend to avoid both the word and the concept. 

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

5^th February, 2025

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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