Dear Common Awakening Community,

It's all about where you are at.

In today's podcast, we discuss spiritual positioning and why it is so important. We often don't realize that "where we are at" influences how we feel and what we do. Too often we have learned to live one way and we do our practices from that automatic set point. What happens is that we don't access the real power that lies within us and we end up trying to create a shift through effort.

Do you know any of those places in your life where you've tried and tried to make a shift and it doesn't help or things get worse? Or, maybe you landed on a practice that opened you only to find that it became flat or felt like a burden to carry?

The reason is that we are focused on the wrong thing. 

The key is not the "what" we are doing. Rather, it is the "Where we are doing a practice (or any daily task) from." Too often we are told to 'Center,' but we aren't taught where center is located, how to find center, and then how to stay there. 

Where you do a practice from matters—it creates—and learning to be within your true home, your Center, and to stay there is the missing link. 

Here are a few suggestions for how to practice Spiritual Positioning this week:

1. Develop a mantra like "Where are you right now? or "Be present."

2. Set a timer to do a "temperature check" each day.

3. Choose a spiritual practice that you will not do that has become rote, routine, or burdensome. 

4. Determine which positioning prompt works for you. Is it a hand over the heart? Deepening the breath? Softly smiling? Let it become innate.

Enjoy your explorations with Spiritual Positioning this week and notice what gets easier, lighter, and clearer for staying in your true home, your Center, your State of Fullness.

With love,

Annie and Annmarie

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