The state indicated would be a condition of balance. When
activities in one direction are over intense and unduly prolonged,
all vibrations tend to a strain in that direction. Such strain--
all in one direction--is not normal, because it signifies
disturbance of balance. If harmony in the "field" is to be
restored, the one direction-strain must be released so that all
right activities may recur and all vibrations proper to the
"field" may again take place. Always the ideal is general harmony
throughout the personal field. Now, some of the activities of our
life are normally those of work, inducing corresponding vibrations
in the individual "field," and some of them are normally those of
recreation, which is a true word because it means recreation, that
is, action or rest inducing corresponding vibration differing from
those of work, running, so to speak, in different directions, and
so restoring harmony. Work and recreation are, therefore, equally
essential to the normal life. We have, however, built up wrong
ideas of each of these important functions, so that most of us
distinguish work as essentially different in its basic nature from
recreation, and more or less an evil, and distinguish recreation
as altogether and in itself a good.
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