The “Flow” of Life

When life is flowing naturally, we find serendipity to be our normal operating state. We notice the beauty of the world around us and experience the spirit within our self and others. We feel connected to nature and people while we move through our daily activities. Our projects and activities seem to flow with ease and everything we need to fulfill our heart’s desires shows up as we need it to. 

We move with life when we are in the “Flow”, we experience life events in a natural, easy, effortless, sequential manner.

This state of “Flow” is not an everyday experience for most people and certainly not common for our modern, fast-paced society as a whole. People that have experienced Flow will tell you that it is the most miraculous and joyful way to live!

Many people believe Flow is a coincidence, a random event that they have no control over, and of course if we believe it - whatever we believe we will experience to be true.

People throughout the ages from many different fields of life have described living in the Flow in different ways. It has been called living in grace, enlightenment, nirvana, Self-realization, self-mastery, operating in the “zone”, etc.

Most people in our society have experienced Flow while falling in love or being in nature, or during a crisis when they had a sudden realization that all is well.

There are many deeply ingrained beliefs in our modern society that are not aligned with the concept of living a life of easy, joyful success. Many people live in quite the opposite state - of stress, struggle and confusion and because this is so prevalent it is easy to buy into this sort of “mass hysteria”.

Once a person understands the “mechanics” of Flow and that it is possible to live in this state as a normal operating state, there lies before them a wonderful new possibility of living in a state of grace.

Developing this ability is a skill, and as any skill it must be practiced deliberately in order to become second nature, to become realized as a firsthand experience.

Flow is attained through living in the NOW moment all of the time. By living in the present and allowing life to unfold as it does without inner resistance.

The “physics” of Flow are that as long as our life force - our attention – flows, our life flows. This means that we must not be resisting our life experience by thinking about it or judging it as it unfolds, but rather by FEELING it experientially. By fully experiencing our life - our emotions, sensations, judgments, in each moment as they arise without resistance - Flow occurs.

In the beginning while practicing this we will go through moments of pain, and unconsciousness and other resistance to Flow that we have created in some moment in the past. Eastern teachers call this “karma”. Karma is simply beliefs, resisted emotions and sensations that we have stored that we did not allow to flow freely and they are stuck in our body/mind as contracted energy. This contracted energy does not feel good - we have labels for it like fear, pain, anger, depression, etc.

However, any responsible person knows that whatever we sow, we must eventually reap. We cannot “put off” these resisted beliefs, pains and emotions forever and putting them off requires a lot of our life force, our energy. This process of putting off the resistance that we have stored from that past is the source of stress and struggle in our lives.

By allowing each moment of our life to Flow and by being aware of our judgments and resistance to whatever we experience, we can reverse the process of storing stress and pain and begin to expand our consciousness again. And since our life is a reflection of our attitudes, our state of mind, as we expand our consciousness, we feel more clear and in the Flow and our life gets better and better.

The challenge that most of us face in this process is that there are currently not many “technologies” or spiritual paths that effectively support a person in this process of re-attaining miracle living and so few people get the result that their soul seeks. So many people are getting slow or limited results in their practice or path and this causes discouragement and dis-belief in miracle living to be prevalent in our society. Others settle for “positive thinking” and pretend in vain that they have it already!

The elements of a highly effective, successful strategy to re-attaining Flow in our life are: Developing the skill of Present moment living; the ability to identify and create intentions aligned with the true self (our heart); the ability to identify and effectively release resisted beliefs, pains, sensations, etc.; the ability to deepen our connection with the inner stillness of our soul, to become the “silent witness” of our resisted identity selves and to dis-associate from them. There also are advanced, more intensive skills one can develop to rapidly speed up this process.

Whatever path you choose, the most important element is your belief in the possibility of living in Flow, of living in grace.

Be determined to live as the total master of your life and the power of your intent will lead you to the experiences and resources that will support you to re-attaining your natural birth-right of miraculous, joyful living!

The Self Discovery Techniques are a revolutionary strategy to accelerate the self mastery process!