Find Your Center

Category: Personal Development for Adults

Cultivate calm and clarity with this energy healing practice

Centering is a foundational practice for any form of energy work. It involves focusing your energy and consistently returning to the present moment. In other words, we bring our attention back to the body.

Our mind, emotions, and energy often run in every direction and we end up feeling scattered. Thoughts linger on a careless remark the manager made the day before, our heart is with loved ones who may be facing challenges, and part of our energy can remain caught in the past within a difficult experience we are still reliving.

Centering calls us back home, into the body, into what is here now. It helps in many ways and is especially supportive during energy work.

How to find your center?

Sit comfortably where you will not be disturbed. Keep an upright posture.
Lightly touch the fingertips of both hands together and rest them in a comfortable position.
Breathe deeply.
As you inhale, invite a sense of peace. As you exhale, let go of tension, worry, or anything that troubles you in this moment. Settle the mind and allow passing thoughts to drift by without giving them attention.
Now, with each in breath, imagine or sense that you are drawing back the scattered pieces of yourself.
Without overthinking, feel your energy returning from all directions.
With every breath, notice your energy becoming more complete. Sense it growing more connected. Feel or envision it gathering into wholeness, like watching a vase reassemble as the film runs in reverse.
When you are ready, feel your energy, your essence, focusing in the center of your chest, at your brow, or wherever it naturally gathers.
When you feel complete, open your eyes.

There are other ways to collect your energy. Even a few moments of deep breathing are extremely helpful, and meditation is a powerful discipline through which you can train your focus.

Whatever you choose, you will feel better. Your breathing deepens and slows, which brings more oxygen into the body. You will feel calm and steady, your mind clearer, and your energy more whole.