People commonly speak of being “off center,” meaning imbalanced in some way. Finding a center within your body, a place you can attend to when you are stressed or upset and need to draw your fragmented parts back together, can be helpful. Where would you locate your center? Unsure? Try one or more of these suggestions:

1. If you imagine that your soul exists in your body, where would it be? Touch that place now.
2. Imagine that your body is a building with a hidden chamber located somewhere within it. In that chamber you meet your inner wisdom or guide. This is a place in which no lies can exist. Where is that place?
3. Imagine that you want to balance your physical body. Where is the fulcrum, the point of contact at which you will balance?
4. Take a few slow and very deep breaths. From what place does the breath originate? What place does the deepest breath reach?
5. Say “I am me” several times as you point to yourself. Where do you point? Which place feels truest?

You may have found several different places that felt like your center, your internal home. Decide which one is your favorite for now and experiment with it for at least a week before you try out another one. Use that place within as a point of focus that you can return to even in the midst of chaotic activity. Meditation will become a way of life, not just something you do for a set time every day. This form of self remembering is a powerful means of heightening your awareness of your life, reducing stress, altering the way in which you see the world, and consequently enhancing your overall health and wellness.

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