Trusting the Still Center

I have been walking in the local park about weekly with a friend.  The air is clear, the scent of decaying leaves strangely refreshing!  The park is some 2500 acres of woods and fields, with a lake at its center.  Walking through the woods feels ancient and rich, putting my feet to the timeless soil, under the white and blue sky-scape.

For me, the woods invariably connects me to the "still center," the place where doubt falls away and beauty and inner wisdom is found.  This still point is the quiet interior, the essence of our nature, and the place of all intuitive knowledge.  When I guide others to find this interior, I often ask people to visualize a staircase to the interior.  The staircase is a method for moving the attention away from the head and into the belly. 

The head -- the place of logical thinking -- will want to doubt the very existence of this interior.  When we tap into intuitive knowledge, it is the knowledge that challenges us to grow and change, while the logical mind will want everything to remain as is.  Why?  Because it feels safer to have things stay the same.  Doubt is the mind's way of staying in control.

But experience tells us that we are not really in control of our lives.  We can make choices, and direct our lives along a certain course, but we are never fully in control!

Self-mastery is the ability to hold onto our still center, allowing doubt to be sidelined by the practice of listening to what that center is asking of us.  Eventually, with practice, doubt arises, but it no longer can disguise itself as truth.

Awakening the interior voice takes listening and acting on what is found so that you can learn to trust its wisdom.  Einstein said that our society has it upside down.  That truly, intuitive knowledge is a sacred gift, and logic the servant of this gift.  Our culture and our planet desperately need people to follow arising interior guidance.  For what knowledge is there is designed to guide the unfolding of the individual, for the highest purposes for the individual and the planet.