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Aspects of Flow
Today, we are talking about flow. What do you think of when you hear the word flow? What does it mean to you on a personal level? Flexibility. Smooth transitions. Anxiety free. Things are moving along well, going with the flow. Adaptability. Direction. Menstruation? These are all personal answers, and what occurs to you personally…
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Engagement is Necessary
I have found in the morning, if I eat, brush my teeth, do some squats and yoga, and drink my tea, then my brain wakes up much quicker and my morning goes much better. That brings me to one of the core elements of flow. The first reason flow is such a struggle for people is…
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Morph Perception
I find it’s best to keep to myself when I’m angry, and just write my thoughts down on paper, because all that energy wants to be released in some way. I really need a punching bag. Ah, that brings up the action part of flow as opposed to the state related part. Your state arises…
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Our Personal Composition
How is it we don’t all change dramatically with every little shift of events? You are given a brush and pallete full of paints and a canvas. Why don’t you just become a painter? We are told we can’t paint or I’ve told myself I can’t paint. Yes. There is outside influence, and there is…
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Flow Links Us
Our flow links us. When we are in flow, the events that arise from behaviour that stems from flow are more coherent, more readily recognized by others around us if only on an instinctive level, and they create both a sense of security and vibrant life. Those little elements of our own nature, taken as…
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Big Change Starts Small
The source that inspired the ancient sages is not gone, but old progress perhaps cannot be retrieved and is perhaps not even necessary to do so. Perhaps just an increased trust in ourselves as meaningful beings capable of perceiving truth in the world, and finding value in experience, would allow us to match and even…
Category: Flow
You have two flows you deal with as an individual. The first is the process by which you maintain your sense of orientation in the world, your habitual thoughts and feelings as well as memory as it arises throughout the day. The other aspect of flow that runs alongside our stream of thought is our flow of attention. Engagement is necessary to experience flow. There has to be movement, motivation, intention, and whatever moves you internally or externally can start the state of flow which can then extend through long parts of the day.
When we are in flow, the events that arise from behaviour that stems from flow are more coherent, more readily recognized by others around us, and they create both a sense of security and vibrant life. We could have a living system, a fully conscious system, but we would need to start by respecting ourselves and practicing flow.
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze” Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy” Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, 1795-1881)