Hello friends I'm Deepak Chopra. This is daily breath.

We are in the third week of our new series, Total Meditation.

Your mind already knows how to meditate.

All you need to do is notice and take advantage.

No matter what meditation practice you engage in, the process always involves

centering. To be centered means to rest easily in your body, feeling quietly yourself with no demands or expectations.

It's the departure point for everything else that can happen with total meditation.

If you're not centered nothing will happen in your meditation. Distraction pulls us away from what is most important. Centering occurs naturally outside of meditation.

For example, when you're serious and sincere

and speaking your truth emotions are expressed from the heart.

So how do you find your center at any time?

Find a quiet place. Close your eyes and let your attention gently go to the center of your chest in the region of your heart.

Breathe easily and do nothing. You will sense that you are centered and quiet.

Continue to do nothing and your attention will start wandering again.

Notice this and bring your attention back to your center.

Repeat this as often as you like. Your aim is simply to notice the sensation of being centered.

Being centered is the threshold to pure awareness,

the steady state of consciousness. Join me tomorrow for Friday meditation. You're going to.