Inspiration awakens us – and others – to new possibilities. Being ‘centred’ can help you remain calm under stress, empathise, listen deeply, and remain present.

But it requires space, time and patience to develop your ability to be centred. It’s not something that can be forced.

Start by connecting with your breath, feel the sensation of breathing as you look around you. Slow down and observe.

Connect with your surroundings by noticing its beauty, rhythm, pattern, complexity.

There may be a particular aspect you see as you look around. Or it might be the sounds of nature that catch your awareness.  

This can remind us that we are part of something bigger, part of nature and the flow of life. 

Allow you mind to drift here, to consider:

• what inspired you when you were young?  
• what or who inspires you now?  
• how do you wish to be an inspiration to others? 
• what are your strengths?  
• where in your body do your feel those strengths?  

Now imagine the nature blowing air into them, expanding them in your body.  

 Picture yourself in this scene and imagine seeing and feeling an energy and inspiration flowing out from the nature and into you. Imagine a future you with an internal drive of inspiration and an external embodiment of it.  

As you develop your self-awareness of when and how you experience inspiration personally, you can consider how you can extend this in how you can inspire others around you.