Finding Your Center

FYI - probably the next several posts are going to be related to my trip to Santa Fe and the subsequent changes I have noticed since then.

In massage school, they taught a little bit about your center, your Hara.  That while working on a client, to be coming from your center which would be located around where your 2nd chakra is, below your navel.  I remember hearing that for the first time and I understood what they were talking about.  I mentally knew what was being said and what that meant but until about a week ago, I didn't really know it because I had never felt it.  When I was working on clients last weekend I realized during one of them that I could feel that my hara, my center, was awake.  I could literally feel a power coming from that center.  And I have to say it was odd but in a good way.  It was odd because I realized that was the first time I had felt that.  I have been doing bodywork for almost 4 years - where have I been operating from this whole time?  Was it from an empty space?  I have no idea.  However, before feeling my center, I do know that I always have an intention for the client while I'm working on them.

I do think it is difficult to describe what this feeling feels like of coming from your center.  Would I have  still felt this if I had stayed home?  Most likely but when?  The following week, year or 10 years later?  Who knows?  I'm just glad it did.  It's kind of like you don't know what's missing until you have it.

This center, for me, feels like a fullness but energized.  A force that is leading you from this place below your navel.  That there is a power behind what you are doing and it puts you in a more focused state, almost trance like but you are aware of what is going on both a small and large scale.