Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Yesterday, I blogged about how finding one’s center/balance can allow them to navigate life’s turbulent waters while maintaining their true nature.  Some may have wondered how one goes about discovering their center/balance.  With a little practice and patience, finding a direct path to one’s centeredness isn’t hard.

When in the midst of life’s challenges, a person must remind themselves to take a step back, inhale deep breaths and actively seek their balance rather than give into outside pressures to cave or act in ways that would disallow them being able to hold their heads up high.  Doing so takes practice, but the rewards are monumental and well worth the effort.

Discovering a direct path to one’s centeredness can be as simple as going for a walk.  Taking a run.  Hiking a mountain.  Swimming laps.  Feeling the freedom of riding a horse.  Knitting.  Sewing.  Crocheting.  Reading.  Getting lost in music.  Pausing the world to watch a stunning sunset.  Gazing over the ocean as her magnificent waves lap at the shore.  Meditating.  Dancing.  Doing yoga or Pilates.  It could even involve spying a flock of birds, their winged flight allowing them to seemingly fly away from life’s woes. 

Whatever activity you choose, it should be one that brings you deep happiness.  Enough so to steer the logical part of your brain away from your woes.  You need to engage the more creative part of your mind.  The part that isn’t obsessing over whatever’s challenging you.  By doing so, you allow yourself a spell of time to breathe—take long calming breaths—as you turn deep within yourself.  The deeper you turn, the more the world’s woes will slip away.  Or at least they’ll loose some of their overwhelming qualities.

I’m not suggesting that you disappear deep within—forever, just long enough to relax a bit so that when you do re-emerge, you’ll be calmer and more able to deal with…whatever, confident that your inner strength will see you through.  In my humble opinion, that inner strength begins with finding one’s centeredness/balance, which will allow individuals to navigate life’s troubles waters with dignity and grace while remaining true to their nature.