Root into your body.
Gather all your scattered pieces.
Come back to center.
Feel your feet connect
to the earth.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
You belong to this moment.
In this year’s issue of Mindful Magazine, there was an article by Misty Pratt called Mindful of the Unknown explaining that the brain is wired for certainty and is uncomfortable with the unknown. When the brain is trying to create certainty where there isn’t any, it demands a vast amount of energy from the whole body. Heart, lungs, nervous system—everything works harder.
Given global conditions (not to mention personal, individual conditions), we’ve all been living under prolonged uncertainty for years now.
No wonder we feel tired. No wonder we feel “off.” This is not weakness or a personal failing. We are living through prolonged uncertainty with brains that thrive on predictability.
Today’s invitation:
Notice one tiny way you can offer your body some ease—one exhale, one stretch, one quiet moment of acknowledgment. “Of course this feels hard.”
I talk a lot in my practices about “sitting with the unknowing held inside.”
It’s not easy. The unknown can feel like a cliff edge.
Some deep part of you does know how to move with mystery, to breathe through not having answers, to be held in the Great Between.
Affirmation from my book Return: “Beloved, you are wrapped in the mantle of the Great Mystery.”
Reminder: When you feel scattered, off-center, or out of sync, you are NOT failing at “being spiritual,” you’re receiving an invitation—an invitation to return. Instead of shaming or blaming yourself or trying to fix yourself, try this:
– Put your hands over your heart.
– Take a deep breath.
– Say: “I call my spirit back.”
Your body is the quickest doorway to the sacred.
It is from the place of center, from our place of return, that we can best reach out to tend our thread in the web.
