My little
blue and violet lights.
Thank you for being
ever present.
As symbols of peace
and grounding.
Dear Patient Reader,
The rule of recentring is a well-being method that exercises one’s emotional intelligence. Primarily, its purpose is to cause your thoughts and emotions to become centred again. This involves knowing and listing out our priorities, our primary-, and secondary goals. Even our values and principles. All the aspects listed help us find and feel like ourselves. They make up our emotional being, or centre, towards which we focus our thoughts and emotions.
Being aware of the rule of recentring helps us to live better because it helps us control our emotions to make better decisions. Think of it as “emotion management”, where we are our own managers, constantly understanding, keeping tabs on, and coming to terms with how we feel on a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, and year-to-year basis. It’s an interesting exercise to think about one’s own behavioural patterns because it gives us the space to assess and evaluate ourselves.
It is necessary because we are surrounded by so much noise. With people, even strangers, telling us how we should think, or what we should do. The rule of recentring helps separate the voices that matter from all the other noise, loose suggestions, and crowds of comments. To break and block out the noise, is the reason why I commit to jotting down a few notes, thoughts, and reflections. You can’t help but slow down when you need to find a pen that works and a notepad that isn’t full. Why keeping wads and scraps of paper is great. Whatever works for you is good, as having a well-set process, a habit, brings your thoughts and feelings back to your centre. Psychology has taught us that controlling our thoughts allows us to exert a measure of control over our emotions. Which creates a positive cycle of thinking and feeling that is more in line with our own values and principles. To align your inner-self to your outer-self, so that they can live in sync and work in tandem as much as possible.
If I were to summarise the rule of recentring, it would be that it gives us a means to “show up as our truest selves”. A key takeaway is that “Increased positive thinking = Increased positive feelings”. Therefore, the more control we have over our emotions, the better decisions we take, and the healthier feelings we harvest.
Till the next.
P.S. This was written after I came across an article on Inc. Africa by Justin Bariso. Have a nice week ahead.
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