Centering Ourselves | by Madisyn Taylor When our thoughts are scattered in several directions at once and we are no longer conscious of what we are doing or why, it is time to center ourselves. When we center ourselves, we begin by acknowledging that we have become spread too thin and we are no longer unified inside. Our thoughts might be out of sync with our feelings, and our actions may be out of sync with both. The main signs that we need to center ourselves are scattered thoughts and a feeling of disconnection or numbness, as if we are no longer able to take anything in. In addition, we may feel unfocused and not present in our bodies. Centering ourselves is a way of coming to terms with all the different energies within us and drawing them back into ourselves. Centering yourself means that you are working from or being aware of the core of your being in the solar plexus area of your body. At first it may not make sense, but as you progress you will understand what this feels like. We naturally know how to center ourselves when we take a deep breath, for example, before making a big announcement or doing something big. Another way to center ourselves is to sit down and engage in breath meditation. We can start by simply getting into a comfortable upright position and noticing as our breath enters and leaves our bodies. Our breath flows into our center and out from our center, and this process can serve as a template for all of our interactions in the world. In conversations, we can take what our friends are saying into the center of our beings and respond from the center. Our whole lives mirror this ebb and flow of energy that begins and ends at the center of ourselves. If we follow this ebb and flow, we are in harmony with the universe, and when we find we are out of harmony, we can always come back into balance by sitting down and observing our breath. When we sit down to center ourselves we can imagine that we are gathering our straying thoughts and energies back into ourselves, the way a mother duck gathers her babies around her. We can also visualize ourselves casting a net and pulling all the disparate parts of ourselves back to the center of our being, creating a sense of fluid integration. From this place of centeredness, we can begin again, directing ourselves outward in a more intentional way. | DailyOM Course Spotlight by Jumana Sophia Women, there's something you're not getting from most money workshops, relationship seminars, live-your-dreams coaching programs, and even many spiritual practices, as awesome as all those things are. What is it? It's a re-connection to the mostly overlooked, understated, and absolutely essential feminine mystique - the indomitable, sacred, and charismatic feminine force - that resides in you, most often dormant or misunderstood. So much anxiety, unease, insecurity, and scarcity mentality in women stems from inheriting generations of neglect of the feminine essence. Your natural state as a woman is a state of grace, self-authority, abundance, and exquisite power. It's effortless. Yet 99% of women reading this are suffering way too much, working way too hard to "achieve" something that is effortlessly, innately residing in their feminine essence. In this course, you will be transforming unconscious habits of power loss into habits of power cultivation, preservation, and magnification. Drawn and distilled from almost two decades of applied spiritual practice in deep feminine wisdom disciplines, the material in this course will be focused, potent, immediately effective and to the point. Every day will include a guided meditation that will entrain you to an indomitable inner poise that fuses the best of deep feminine mystery practices with martial arts wisdom and some straight-up, master level life coaching. Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. You Are What You Think 2. Lose Emotional and Physical Weight with Tapping 3. 21 Day Booty Core 4. Be Free from Unhealthy Relationships 5. Fit and Fierce Over 40 6. HIIT Yoga Fusion 7. The Art of Intuitive Tarot 8. Finding Peace When Relationships Change 9. 21 Days to Phenomenal Abdominals 10. 21 Days of Prayer to Change Your Life
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