The Seba library treats Centering in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Hall, James A., Hillman, James, Rudolf Ritsema, Stephen Karcher).
Conceptually, the centering quality of the total psyche is the Self, while the centering quality of consci
Hall offers the canonical Jungian formulation that centering is the defining functional property of the Self as the organizing totality of the psyche.
, Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice, 1983thesis
Jung presents the material there not as a case but as empirical evidence for the centering process… fragmentation would be imagined not from within the viewpoint of centering, but from within Dionysian consciousness itself working within dissolution.
Hillman critically contrasts Jung’s centering paradigm with a Dionysian alternative, arguing that centering imagery may foreclose dissolution as a legitimate mode of transformation.
, Mythic Figures, 2007thesis
Centering correcting, CHUNG CHENG: central and correct; make rectifying one-sidedness and error your central concern; reaching a stable center in yourself can correct the situation.
The I Ching glossary frames centering as an ethical-cosmological imperative: achieving an inner stable center is the prerequisite for rectifying outer imbalance.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994thesis
Daniel found boundaries, posture, and centering resources to be the most important ones for him… his resources, practiced before going to work in the morning, were to stand quietly for a few minutes, lengthen his spine, lift his chin, and draw a big circle around himself.
Ogden illustrates centering as a somatic resource — a structured postural and boundary practice that regulates a client’s vulnerability to enmeshment and overwhelm.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015thesis
40.2b Acquiring centering tao indeed. 43.2b Acquiring centering tao indeed. 63.2b Using centering tao indeed.
Repeated hexagram commentary phrases confirm centering as a recurring operative principle within the I Ching’s ethical and cosmological vocabulary.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994supporting
the center, in its political sense, was able to act as an intermediary between the ancient, mythical view of the center and the new, rational idea of the center, equidistant from all parts of the circumference.
Vernant historicizes the concept of the center as mediating between mythical and geometrical-rational thought, providing a structural analogue to depth-psychological centering.
, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, 1983supporting
Vertical alignment refers to an erect posture wherein the head sits centered over the shoulders… When these points are in a straight line, each segment of the body supports the one above, and the body is in balance with gravity.
Ogden describes vertical alignment as the somatic foundation of centering, linking physical equilibrium to reduced muscular effort and psychological stability.
, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, 2006supporting
by checking slowly all the flows of the cognitive senses… prāṇa śakti ūrdhvayā, by the elevated energy of prāṇa… one-pointed prāṇa śakti, when the prāṇa śakti is without the movement of thought.
Kashmir Shaivism’s practice of withdrawing sensory flows through one-pointed prāṇa-śakti offers a tantric analogue to centering as the gathering of dispersed energies toward an inner axis.
, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization, 1979aside