How to Center Yourself
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To go back to your center, you need to go deeper and deeper into yourself.
Practice witnessing your thoughts, your emotions, until you reach the space where there is complete equilibrium. This effort will soon become effortless!
You will fall into your natural you, the you who is neither conditioned by society, nor by collections of experiences.
You can only help yourself by changing your inner space and by starting to work on it, from where you are. You need to spiritualize your life!
Spirituality is all about going back to yourself, and start collaborating with you.
Spiritual people are those who have started acknowledging they are something other than their social identity or material possessions. They are those who are moving beyond the boundaries of social conditionings, in order to be themselves more fully. Never think running away to the forest far away from your responsibility is needed for spirituality to happen!
A simple cognitive shift will do. ananda, eternal bliss - a feeling that is meant to grow to eventually become more real than the outer world.
To feel it, nothing more is needed than practicing going back to our center. This experience will happen by itself through spiritual practices. You don't need to force it. Once it happens you will just drop yourself easily and fall in, you will rise in love with Existence!
Then slowly, as you start functioning from that center, you start expressing spiritual qualities. Your whole perception of the world changes and you witness a subtle beauty, an auspiciousness, perfect silence and harmony everywhere. It is then that you realize that nothing is ever disharmonious in Existence.
You then come face to face with what the mystics call God.
A small story:
Once upon a time there lived a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip smiling, but they never spoke to each other. It became dark and the boy felt tired and he wanted to leave that place. But before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug.
The old woman gave him her biggest smile ever. The boy went home and opened the door of his house. After some time, his mother saw him and was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, ‘What did you do today that made you so happy?’ He replied, ‘I had lunch with God’.
