Our emotional centre was explained to me like this, by a guy named Shiv. Imagine if you have a piece of string inside your body hanging from the top of your head to your feet. There are lots of things that can take us away from our centre or piece of string, be it drugs, alcohol or shocking experiences. We then need to find our way back to our piece of string, because that is where we truly belong. Alas sometimes we stray too far away from it and, “go off the rails”, as they say and can’t find our way back.
Keep to your centre at all times if possible, especially when others are not, do not let anyone bring you down, they need you to be level headed, to bring them back again, don’t go down to their level to get them, bring them up to meet yours, it helps no one if everyone is loosing the plot. Stay strong when you are in your centre, find a thought that helps you stay there, if you need to. I think about something that makes me feel good, like upholstering a sofa that I know, I will never actually get round to doing, but I can still imagine that or something else that gives me a positive focus.
My centre, or near as it, that I can get to it, for me, gives me a nuetral, pleasantly alert, happy to be alive type of feeling. Anything other than that for me, means I’m not on my centre, which means I’m in my stuff and need to deal with it. I never allow myself to get too excited or high or too depressed and low, keeping the emotions level means we avoid mood swings.