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Centering

There's this concept called "centering" that we leaned in school.  For me, it was one of the hardest concepts to understand at the outset. Did they mean standing in a centered way-- like balancing your shoulders over your hips? Or did they mean centering yourself between the ground and the sun.. sort of like a hovercraft? Or perhaps it was something more esoteric like having your mind centered on what was right in front of you instead of all over the place? And then to make it worse there was some guy doing a yoga pose right in the middle of the page, looking serene.  Do we have to learn yoga and stand on one leg with our eyes closed to get this centering thing? So, I'm just going to define it for you my way, because that's the only way I can do it right now. For me, centering involves any activity that helps me get my mind, body and spirit aligned.  Very often one part of me is dominating the sphere.  Sometimes my mind is over-active--like I can'