What brings you to your centre, every day?

When I started out with yoga I was in my late 20s with an exciting career and crazy-busy life. I was having fun and there was opportunity and potential all around. However, I was also going through a divorce, working long hours and knew that stress was my default mode. 
 
I thought I was pretty healthy and fit (ish), ate a 'not awful' diet, and seemed to be getting away with what I was demanding of my body and mind. So what's the problem?
 
 
Why change?
A few clues started to show themselves that this wasn't sustainable. Crashing flu and colds every now and again, irritable moods, and a feeling of dissatisfaction even though things seemed to be going well.
 

Do your yoga
A friend suggested yoga to me. So I bought a VHS cassette and went home and did it. 20 minutes, short and pretty easy. And it was an absolute revelation. 
 
It felt great. I felt great, and more than that, I felt grounded and more vital. I was able to land for a moment in the midst of the whirlwind of my life, and look around and see more clearly what was going on. 
 
I already had a movement practice of morning stretches that I had kept up since my dance training. And I had begun a meditation practice to help with stress and the underlying feeling of dissatisfaction.
Yoga simply and perfectly bought the two together.
 
I did it every day. I would get up early to fit it in. The 20 minute video became so familiar that I could do it on my own when I was travelling and know more or less what to do. And it kept bringing me back to my centre, to the ground beneath me, and a place of solidity in the midst of a busy, crazy life.
 

What brings you back to your centre, everyday?
Everyone needs something to bring them back to their centre.
What is it for you?
And if you haven't found this yet, then what are you waiting for?
 
 
Life gets better, right away.
You enjoy everything more, immediately.
You are more able to ride the highs and lows and aches and pains of life with more grace and less frustration.
And you connect to what is truly important to you. 
 

Live from your centre
Living from a place of feeling grounded in your centre instead of being buffetted around by life is well worth making the time for. And has never felt more needed in this rather chaotic world we live in.