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Centering is the first step on your path to recovering a life of balance, harmony, and comfort.

Like the vertical balance of stacked stones, if we are in harmony with our environment, we are balanced. Like the horizontal balance of a teeter-totter, if we are centered, balance is nearly effortless.

Balance a pen on your finger. Notice the effort it takes to find its center and achieve balance. Notice also how effortless that balance is once you have found this center. The same is true in our life. Once we have discovered our own center, balance follows almost effortlessly.

Notice also that if the pen is not balanced on its center, it takes significant effort to make the pen appear balanced. It is possible to keep the pen horizontal, but does this feel natural, elegant, or easy?

This is where many people find themselves. Great effort goes into appearing balanced, rather than actually being balanced. This struggle takes its toll on health and well-being.

This is especially true for all people whose lives are disrupted by gastrointestinal symptoms. You, like so many others, may put great effort into appearing balanced and in control. You may use words like struggle, battle, and try. Natural, elegant, and easy are probably not words that come to mind. By centering, however, balance is inherent.

Centering is the foundation and the goal for everything you will learn throughout this book. Let us begin our healing journey with centering.