Returning to Center

One pup recently shared their way of returning to center and how what we perceive as that aspect doesn't have to be the only way.

His way of returning to center or helping me return to a more centered, grounded emotional state was to interact with me in the backyard playing ball.  When I threw the ball in one direction, he’d wait for me to run over to him and then he’d take the ball and race it back to the center of the yard.

When I met him there, I could grab it to toss in another direction. The routine continued until he knew I got his message as we both raced to different areas of the yard with a round ending as we came back to the center point.

Ten or fifteen minutes at the end of a day or after a challenging phone call or situation can assist us in shaking off the moment and acts as a clearing mechanism for our body.

Getting into the energy of play is important. Playing or treating every situation as a game, lightens your energy and relaxes you which places us in a more centered and grounded state of presence. This can mean that any response, action we take or words we speak comes from a place of balance versus emotion. When it comes solely from emotion, we generally can be thrown all over the place in a conversation, meeting or experience… and essentially, we are derailed.

Play through actual games, hiking, gardening, playing with your animal friends or calling forth the energy, lightens our outlook and shifts how we enter an experience, phone call or discussion. The key is the next natural step is our return to a space of center.