The Libra Centre.

What does it mean when you are told to centre yourself?

Well one idea is to focus on a circle with a small dot in the middle such as this.

The dot in the middle is you when you are centred.

The circle around it is the boundary between yourself and your environment.

Outside the circle is the world outside yourself

Between the circle and the dot is the buffer zone.

The buffer zone is there to help you respond in a way that you choose.

If you are not centred then you reduce the buffer zone so that there is no room to respond only react. Most people simply react to their environment in an automatic pre-programmed way, which is very often the wrong reaction.

By centring yourself you will actually be in more control and you will be able to choose your responses on a case by case basis, actually thinking about what the correct response should be.

A second case is to image you are that lonely boy on the see-saw. He gets nowhere sat on one end, he wears himself out running from one end to the other. Until he realises that if he stays in the middle balancing both sides he can start to have fun. If you have ever tried this you will have a good idea of what it feels like to be centred while completing a task or just getting through life.