Clean up the spiritual living room
“Our lives hammer us continually with alerts, stimulants, and hazards, which can trigger our fight-or-flight responses, raise our levels of tension and anxiety, and lead us to live in prolonged states of preoccupation and vigilance. Being in constant, sustained alert mode diminishes our ability to access our human abilities of deep thinking, intuition, empathy, feelings, and stored knowledge. Free-floating anxiety is also bad for your health.
While it is helpful to go into an alert, focused mode to deal with a problem, it is healthy to lay down that mode when the challenge has passed. Centering is a way to do so…
Centering for me is not worship. Rather, it is preparation for truly open, tender, and accepting worship. I see it as sort of like cleaning up the living room before the arrival of expected guests.”
— Rick Ells, 2016
Member of University Friends Meeting in Seattle, WA
Today’s Invitation
Practice centering to declutter your mind.
This Week’s Query
Do you regularly set aside time for spiritual practice?
What is your practice? How has it evolved?
Read the source of today’s quote
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