Giorgia Milne
The balancing of equal and opposing forces occurs at the fulcrum. Classically, fulcrums have been thought of mechanically and functionally: Give me a fulcrum on which to stand and I shall move the earth. -Archimedes, 297 B.C.
Fulcrums are also recognized as important points of balance or stillness, around which movement occurs:
In the human body, each molecule of every cell is polarized and has a balance point, a center or midline, which coherently organizes the function and shape of the organism. And in the craniosacral field, fulcrums are balance or stillness points, around which and within which transmutation occurs. They can be sensed in tissues, fluids, and in the field around us. The concept of the fulcrum is the foundation principle around which techniques and protocols have come into being.
In your conscious experience, can you recall or remember a shift happening in your awareness, in your thoughts, or in your body? Perhaps you remember a time in massage school when you became consciously aware of a limiting belief or thought pattern? Can you recall a shift happening in a group field or social context? A fulcrum event or person often leads to societal change.
How about when you have felt out-of-sorts, and then noticed the moment you came back to center? Can you sense the actual feeling-tone that goes along with that? Your sense of your own center is a fulcrum as well.
These are ALL examples of fulcrums. Multitudes exist within us: the human body functions within a balance of opposing rhythms of flexion/extension, internal rotation/external rotation, and the inhalation/exhalation of our own breathing.
Fulcrums exist around us: night versus day, and rhythms of the seasons of our planet. We can see the physical evidence of the change in water levels of the ocean tides. Have you have spent enough time around the sea where you have actually ever felt the rhythm of the tide shifting? There seems to be a perceivable moment of that interchange.
Your presence is also a fulcrum. We often orient our thoughts around them from within paradigms of opposites: light/dark, love/hate, life/death, good/bad, movement and stillness. Inwardly slowing down allows our full perceptual capacities to emerge. We may be able to hear and sense the shifting of tides within ourselves, our thoughts, our emotions, our body, as well as our physical surroundings. It makes it easier to catch when we move to operating from off-center. This can be such an invaluable capacity to develop and hone. It doesn’t mean that you have to function slowly! It simply means developing a capacity to be your deepest most authentic self, doing what you’re doing while maintaining an inward disposition and body-felt-sense-awareness of your presence in order to catch these subtler cues.
Everything has a fulcrum: subatomic particles, molecules, cells, organs, human bodies, societies, planets, solar systems, and universes. The fulcrum of our cosmos is Dynamic Stillness. Even though a specific activity appears separate, each activity interconnects with all other activities through its fulcrum of Stillness. Fulcra are portals that connect all dots between separation and oneness. Because Stillness is the core of every activity, it is the constant uniting principle through which each part connects with the other parts, and with the whole. In this way the infinitesimal connects with the infinite.
—Charles Ridley
This is our natural state, really, and something that we love and long to sense as an ongoing connection with the forces of nature, and for some, their connection to spirit. People often describe it as a sense of being “at home” and with it comes a natural ease and spontaneity to flow in harmony with ourselves, each other, and world we abide in.
This way of being and inwardly abiding can open the door toward sensing the fulcrum of guidance, a personal kind of GPS if you will. Being in your center allows access to your guidance, and when you are in your center, you become part of the center of the whole. The upcoming course with Giorgia Milne, “Fulcrums: Portals of Wholeness” will provide the opportunity to explore your inner orientation, and lay a foundation for continued exploration and development.
For information about the course, or to register, please contact Mary Reis: 352-246-6280 or maryreis@me.com
