FINDING YOUR CENTER

What is Your Center?

It has been described as balance, intuition, wisdom, the core self, and something spiritual.  It is the substance within each of us that enables us to move through the pains of life and remain standing.

Symptoms of Losing Your Center:

Confusion

Distress

Manic Effort

Exhaustion

How to Find and Keep Your Center:

1. Tell yourself the truth daily.  Find a safe ritual or vehicle to stop, reflect and listen to your inner dialogue.  This could be journaling, relaxation, guided imager, meditation or prayer.

2. Identify regularly your basic needs and wants and determine the difference between the two.  Consider your needs and wants in all major life categories:  physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, spiritually, and creatively.

3. Expect life to offer difficulties rather than expecting happiness to be the norm.  Life’s threats, although painful, are also opportunities.  Changing your mindset may be helpful to you in discovering a general contentment with the ups and down of day-to-day living.

4. Learn how to yield to perceived threats rather than just pushing back. Sometimes stepping out of the way of a perceived threat and letting it stumble under its own momentum is the best course of action.  Yielding does not mean that you are giving up or being a doormat.

5. It’s a choice.  Choose to keep your center while others swirl around you.