Quotes About Centering

For me, managing my energy means slowing myself down before the big event. I slow down the racing thoughts in my mind. I concentrate on and slow down my breathing. I listen to and steady my heart rate.

The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.

She discovered that being 'ordinary' wasn't a terrible failure but rather a centering human experience. Perhaps our courage to embrace our ordinariness (along with our uniqueness) is one of the true keys to happiness in our relationships - including the relationship with our own self.

Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center—at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Especially when you have a lot going on, you must find a way to unplug and focus on yourself.

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meditation simply helps you channel drive toward the few things that matter, rather than every moving target and imaginary opponent that pops up.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

If the heart wanders or is distracted," advised Francis de Sales (1567–1622), a Catholic saint, "bring it back to the point quite gently . . . and even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back . . . though it went away every time, your hour would be very well-employed.

I'd go into the bathroom, pee, close my eyes, and try to find a mental black dot. Then I'd float through that black dot for almost sixty seconds and be in nothing. I'd come out of the bathroom thinking how perfect I felt.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it.

En todas estas habilidades primero tenemos que aprender a «domar» nuestra mente y nuestras emociones. No podremos escuchar si nuestra mente divaga y nos impide concentrarnos. No podremos

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

Spellman often said that during his waking hours he was alone only twice each day, for 25 minutes each time:

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.

Centering Prayer is aimed at healing the violence in ourselves and purifying the unconscious of its hidden and flawed motivation that reduces and can even cancel out the effectiveness of the external works of mercy, justice, and peace.

When you create a strong center, your body and mind become able to process the influx of information that is always around you.