Cowritten by Sukhman Rekhi & Tchiki Davis.

Centering is a meditative and visualization technique that can support you in retaining focus, promoting relaxation, and relieving anxiety. An analogy to better understand the centering technique is the visualization of a pendulum.

When you swing a pendulum, it moves back and forth, swaying from one extreme end to the other until it slowly gets closer to the middle. When feeling distracted or anxious, like a pendulum, your thoughts tend to also teeter from........

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