There are moments — sometimes too many — when we feel stretched beyond our center. The day moves quickly—the mind races. The world calls us outward again and again. And in that outward pull, we lose our sense of inner grounding. We lose our roots.

Yet within you, there is a quiet center. A still point. A place where your Spirit rests, unharmed and unchanged by the world around you. And we gain access to that place by learning to turn our inner eyes inward.

When I speak of turning the eyes inward, I don’t mean closing your physical eyes and retreating. Although closing your eyes can help at first, the deeper practice is one of becoming still while staying awake to the world. It is the experience of being fully here, fully aware, and anchored in yourself.

When you begin this practice, something extraordinary happens. The mind slows. The nervous system settles. There is more space between thoughts — and that space is where your intuition lives. That is where the soul integrates, gui...