Gommy is trying to figure out how and why she was so lucky to find the peace I have found in my life and how maybe I can help others find it in their lives. Here goes......
After listening to a lecture on how our very life begins, it was very thought provoking to think of how we actually do begin our life while we are still in utero. We start with the formation of a mid-line embryologic plate (I guess it is called our nervous system) somewhere between the 14th and 17th day of conception. Now, Wikipedia calls this primitive streak the beginning of the Central Nervous System.....so don't go thinking Gommy is going all 'woo-woo' on your guys and don't go falling asleep as if you were in Science class. Everyone awake? Good. Now this line is eventually connected to everything else in the body and has something to do with every form and function of the body, brain, nervous system....well, just everything. Gommy likes to think of this as our soul in body form. It is said that this very same 'nervous system' even 'lives' on for about three days after our body dies! Sounds like a soul to me.....
Are you asking how all this science stuff has anything to do with Gommy finding peace in my life? Thought so.....well here is the connection.....If all the people who seem to have found 'inner peace' do so through meditation, practicing deep breathing and finding awareness, say they do it by 'centering' themselves....then this must be the 'center' they are talking about and where most of us don't think about very often. For Gommy, I can actually close my eyes and 'find that center' now. It took a while and a lot of research about how other people said they 'found' theirs, but Goms can tell you it is possible to find yours too.
We have always heard people say they need to find their center again.....or align themselves with the right path. Somehow, this finding your center and focusing on it is a short cut. Now to visualize this 'center', you can close your eyes and imagine there is a hole in the top of your skull. Now visualize putting a plumb-line right down in that hole all the way to your tailbone. This is the very hub of your vibrational self. As you close your eyes and 'see' this line.....breathe....not just normal breathing....slowly breathe in through your nose until your chest rises fully....then let the air back out through your mouth....but slowly....very slowly. You can almost feel the stress and anxiety leaving your body when you do this. Oh.....almost forgot...when you are breathing...turn off the hamster-wheel or monkey-talk in your head......we don't need them along for this excursion. OK...now visualize a nice mountain top in the wilderness or if that doesn't work for you....try picturing yourself swaying gently in a hammock on a nice breezy day at the beach. You can hear the birds and the ocean lapping up to shore.....or if you took the mountain route....you can hear the river rippling over the rocks and the stillness all around you. Oh....the stillness...almost forgot that part too. The stillness is all about God/Source/The Universe. What is that part in the Bible...."Be still and know that I am God." Or the other one, "Stillness is the language God speaks and all else is a bad translation." Well....that is the stillness part. It is actually letting go and letting God. It is the vibration inside of us that is our Life.
It is like when we go on a vacation to a secluded resort, or the mountains or the beautiful beaches somewhere far away. It is that calmness we feel when we get away from the rushed life we make for ourselves and think, "Ahhhhhhhhhhh, this is so nice and peaceful." And we don't want to come back to our life in urban society, or the fast paced life that we call our 'reality'.
Those of you who are still feeling skeptical should ask yourselves it you have ever had to go to a chiropractor or have been to an acupuncturist. What these people do is realign our body when it is out of whack.....(Gommy's technical term for not in alignment). Maybe you haven't actually had one of these treatments before but maybe you have given yourself a mini-realignment at one time or another. How many of you have ever applied pressure to the back of your neck when you had a bad headache? You just 'sensed' that it would redirect the pain somehow....and by golly.....it does. Or maybe you've heard of the principle of applying pressure to the web part of your hand where you thumb and your forefinger is connected. Applying pressure there will also alleviate the pain in your head. Guess what???? YOU are an acupressurist and you didn't even know it!
So, now you may be feeling a little bit better about seeing that there is a connection between being 'centered' and the center in us all. Finding the peace within you is actually WITHIN you. Find that place and you can 'go there' whenever you are feeling anxious or nervous or the hamster-wheel is going a mile a minute in your head and you are multi-tasking and you feel like you are on overload.....and......gasp......you just want to jump out of your skin. Instead.....go inside your skin. Breathe.....calm your thoughts...or better yet....don't think at all....except for the thoughts of the mountains or ocean or whatever it is that makes you feel serene.
Well, that's about it for today's lesson from Gommy. It really does work and it really is worth trying to get there. You can have your own mini-vacation anytime you want and it's better than those expensive vacations we look forward to once a year at best. Happy breathing boys and girls. Gommy is pulling for you...((*.*)) Hugs and Mush everyone!
