Centering

A centered person can feel others’ pain without being overwhelmed by it. Equanimity allows compassion, happiness, joy, and curiosity to remain while perceiving suffering. Centered compassion is distinguished from numbness or indifference. Centering is the ability to maintain a mid-stance position while using needed visual strategies. Centering depends on coordination between foot-based ascending sensory information and descending sensory information from vision and other systems. Meditation and breathwork are recommended as ways to build centeredness. The goal of centering is to maintain a clear midline from the head through the stance foot without visual input disrupting posture or balance.