You do not have to find "center" or learn about how to go about being centered. So how do you come into that state of being? Simple. Turn off your thoughts. The space in between thoughts is where you center lies. This is called "being in the moment", and there is only peace within this space because your ego has been silenced for a minute or two and cannot bring thoughts of worries, fears, judgments, etc.
I think this is why I get so many messages in the shower, while out for a walk, or driving. It's because I'm focused on the NOW and I'm not thinking. I'm only observing all that is around me. I love being in water so much that I am just totally relaxed while watching the water flow down around me and feeling soothed. I'm not thinking about anything else. I'm simply in the moment. When I'm out for a walk, I notice the messages come in when I'm noticing every detail around me, which has my attention, rather than my thoughts stealing my focus upward into my head of intangible things. I'm just in a state of BEING, and observing from my immediate time frame. No thoughts of the past, no thoughts of tomorrow...just now. Same with driving. I have realized that messages come through when I'm completely focused on everything around me. I'm not lost in my thoughts during those times (which I do admit that I do on occasion and it scares me when I realize I need to pay better attention to traffic). Instead, I am in the present watching everything on the road around me.
We have been so conditioned to live in our heads that we cruise through life on autopilot without really experiencing it to its fullest. If we could take all those thoughts from our head and manifest them immediately in our daily lives, it would be one scary movie! Who would want all that clutter and chaos going on? Life is much simpler than that if we take the time to just be still in the moment and see what is really around us at the moment. The worry about tomorrow is not standing in front of us, threatening us harm. I bet all you will see is a tree and some cars going by. All of us have had these centered moments, even if they were very fleeting. And I can guarantee that for everyone, you felt a moment of peace and well being as if all was actually well in your world. Then you flipped the switch on back to THOUGHT and resumed back to your normal programming. *sigh*
We take our daily grind for granted. How many of you have been driving, but don't really remember the drive itself? The scariest experience I ever had was when I was 17 driving from Hickam AFB, Hawaii to Iriquoise Point near Ewa Beach. I did not remember the entire 45 minute drive. I only remember getting into my car, and then suddenly I was nearing my friend's neighborhood. I actually had to pull over because it shook me up so badly and I wondered if I even stopped for any stoplights or stop signs because I could not remember!
When you wash your hands, do you do so automatically, or do you take the time to notice everything around you and the water flowing out of the faucet? When you run out to your mailbox, do you even remember anything about the walk, or do you only know that you got your mail? When you go through a store, can you even recall what the person in front of you was wearing or what he or she looked like? When you're at the gym, do you listen to the rhythm of your body moving and notice the lights and sounds around you? Life is passing us by and we have the power to join it...yet we don't. Instead, we moan about how life is so complicated and no matter how hard we try, our circumstances won't allow us to feel centered. We complain that we don't know how to be still and find center. But it's never gone. And we do know how. We've done it many times before. Turn off those thoughts, enjoy the moment of stillness, and get connected to the world around you again.
And as I type these last words, I hear my Team laughing because one of the biggest things I do that keeps me from being connected to what is in front of me is being on Facebook and the internet. LOL! Point taken. :-D
