Quotes About Centering

12 years ago all I wanted to do was sing the right songs and get emotionally wound up, but now I realize my job is to make Christ the center of attention each night.

Any time I am nervous, I do a couple of yoga breaths, and I am fine.

Mountain pose is the mother of all poses. The alignment of mountain pose is contained within every yoga posture.

If you wake up in the morning, and you're feeling tired, I feel like if you get on your yoga mat and even practice for, like, 10 or 15 minutes, it's really great for just grounding you, centering you, and getting the energy moving.

I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what's important.

I've been doing a lot of yoga because it really centres me - mentally as well as physically. It's just an hour of my day that's always positive, and I always come out in a better mood.

Your outlook is pretty happy and positive after yoga. It's a good way to open up and center.

In yoga we say 'you want to ground to the floor.' Getting yourself to motivate is about putting your feet on the floor, grounding and going. It's one of the most important forces we can have.

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.

To move to a generative somatic level, the general principle is, Align and center. To move to a generative cognitive level, the principle is, Accept and transform. To move to a generative field level, the principle is, Open beyond (e.g. the problem), then open beyond that.

centering is what will allow you to let go of the need for your ego-intellect to control and explain everything. Centering

The covenant we make with ourselves is to love ourselves: to center in the devotion to sacred experience, honoring our bodies as temples of spirit, our emotions as reflections of spirit, our aspiration as the adoration of spirit for spirit.

Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.

Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

The key to creating a home meditation practice is to create a space where the busyness stops.

drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves

It only takes one breath to return to your true home

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

Whenever you're carried away by thinking, overwhelmed by strong emotions, or feeling restless and dispersed, return to your breathing. Bring body and mind together and anchor your mind. Become aware of the air coming in and going out of your body.

Monastic prayer begins not so much with "considerations" as with a "return to the heart," finding one's deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being