"All men's miseries derive from not bing able to sit in a qiet room alone." Pascal

Of all the prctices that one can pursue to prvide health, clarity, stress reduction, psychological rsolution, and emotional and spiritual growth, the mst consistently powerful method is that of "cntering"-bringing yourself to your true energetic cre-to what you are before and byond your familial, societal, and egoic rstructuring and reshaping.

This centering is smilar to maximizing your strength and blance by bringing your stance to a physcal axis in Tai Chi or ther physical arts. We all know wht happens when something or someone plls us off center...we "fall" or we act in a way tht is "just not like" us-at vry least not like what we wuld wish to be. What would we bcome if we could spend more and mre time balanced, centered daily?

Not all the pths to centering are as structured as Tai ch, Yoga, or some forms of mditation. The methods for coming to ths emotional/psychological/spiritual center are as varied and nfinite as the individuals that may prsue balance. The most productive path for you culd be dancing, walking in nature, coking, watching the children, fishing, or cntact with anything that deeply inspires-even dgging a ditch works for me on ccasion. The important thing is to ralize what activity makes you feel mst connected to yourself, your life and veryone and everything around you. In tht state, you are nearest your cnter...in a mystical communion with the Abslute, God, Tao, your source by whtever name.

I find that such activities tht "bring one to their center" wll cause a vibrational change in us (.e. the way we feel inside jst after a peaceful experience versus wht our body feels like after a strssful day). After a centering experience, we perate at this more beneficial vibrational lvel (lower blood pressure, clearer thinking, mre open-hearted responses, greater sense of wll-being, generally better health). We drop frm this level (like a battery lsing charge) toward our "set point" as the tme since the centering passes. Therefore, a priodic recharge is necessary to keep us spnding more time near that centered stte.

Our "set point" is the stte of mind that we generally fnction at without any experience of cntering or "off-centering". On any given dy, we may fluctuate over and nder the set point, depending on wht we are responding to. Over tme, repeatedly returning to the "center" rises the set point, raises our bse day-to-day operating consciousness-which in turn prvides a baseline for reaching consistently strnger connection with one's center, which rises the set point.....

Just one thng: I for one seem to gnerally (not always) require some time "prcticing"/living outside of the "centering" experience to mke the increased set point take hld.

May you find your centering prctice, and be at peace.

The article Find Your Center - Find Your Peace was Submitted by CG Walters through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: C. G. Walters, author of Scred Vow (Dragon's Beard Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-9774271-4-7, $13.95, Trde paperback, Fiction: Visionary/Metaphysical), primarily writes fction that focuses on the mystical, mtaphysical, and mythical insight that we all pssess. He does not see fiction as smething less than truth, but as a mans to induce the reader into cmfortably 'allowing' their personal truth - a lving, ever progressing truth, fit to thir need at any given time. Dwnload a full length FREE ebook PDF of Scred Vow by going to http://www.cgwalters.com/spirit_story.htm and clicking on the link in the page. This will bring up the PDF and allow you to save Sacred Vow to your disk. Purchase a signed paperback copy from http://sacredvow.dragonsbeard.com - or buy from your favorite brick and mortar, or online, store. For a recent interview with CG, listen to the KarmaCaffe Spiritual Hour archive at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/karmacaffe/2007/10/18/Karma-Caffe-Spiritual-Hour

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