Finding Your Foundation, With Debbie Rosas.

I have rebuilt my foundation more times than I can count. So much so, that I now make it a daily practice to help me to imagine stepping onto a new foundation every day. This helps me become a role model with the primary goal of helping people grow into their fullest potential.

I first discovered my feet as a foundation when I was asked to hold the position of a cat stance on the mat in a martial arts class. This move required me to balance on one foot. Between the wiggles and wobbles it was clear to me that I had no solid foundation on which to stand.

That made sense. I was in the midst of my first real personal crisis and my business was struggling. I was alone with just two friends from my former life. Everything I knew to be true and real was dissolving. I had nothing to stand on, lean on, and nothing for me to hold on.

How do you find your center? If you imagine playing a game with your center, could you imagine losing it and then find it again? This is something you can do over and over, again and again. When you find your center, you can dance with it, pulling and pushing at its edges.

All I could do was begin again. I had to learn to stand up for myself and my children and I had to strengthen my body, my life, and my business from the ground up. Along the way, I discovered that a solid foundation required a lot more than two feet planted on the ground.

It required a strong center where energy and creativity could flow and express itself. The best foundations provide both stability and mobility. The most powerful and effective foundations are adaptable. They can endure, persevere, sustain, rebirth, and even become renewed.

When I need to seek and find my foundation for stability and mobility, I close my eyes and see myself standing in a circle, in the center of all centers. I hold this vision until I feel confident and grounded, until I can move and speak confidently from a place of power and grace.

You can imagine cutting through your center, and riding the lines of a force that asks you to be stronger and bigger. You can easily fall in love with the daily ride of rebuilding your foundation, of getting close to its edges, and the sensation of jumping in and out of center.

 Always one to explore the felt sense of life; the phrase “Center of All Centers,” became something I wanted to understand as both a concept and a sensation. I wanted to physically explore this phrase. I wanted to imagine I held space for myself, for all people, and for all life.

I placed a bed sheet on the floor, drew the shape of the circle on the center of it, and sat with my legs crossed in the center of it. The longer I sat, the more I sensed myself nested within the Cosmos of the Universe as it surrounded me and held me. And then, I wondered…

What I’ve learned by letting go of center and then finding it over and over again, is that every moment demands I find my center. Every moment demands I be the center of all centers. In this, I am able to reach out to my life with all the strength and mobility of a sure foundation.

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