How to stay fluid

Years ago, in a talk on self realisation, I asked the question “how do you stay in flow?”

I could get into creative flow on occasions but not stay in it.

My wary and defensive questioning was telling.  

The quick reply took me by surprise.

“How can you grasp a kiss”.

Ok.

That, however, was not the end of the state chasing …. at least for a while!

Need vs. Love

The answer was clear, grasping was getting in the way of this creative flow.

The solution was not so clear and would take many years to unravel.

A good place to start is to ask if you need a thing or person or love it?

Need vs. Love.

Do you want to do it or do you have to?

Is there a choice?

Many of us don’t realise we have a choice - conditioning (family, societal, friends) is so deeply ingrained.

Yet recognition that yes there is a choice is the first step to liberation.

Unwilling to recognise or exercise this choice keeps the chains in place.

Blocked people create problems.

Honesty and courage

Choosing love will not necessarily be the easy choice.

Necessary though to stay fluid.

Delusion, poor judgement, victimhood, manipulation, dominance (our own and others) - all to be seen through and healed.

Eeek!

Boy does that take courage and a ruthless honesty. [Read - Staying true when the past (shadow knocks]

That’s why it’s so difficult to sit with or speak with someone who sees through the bull s&^%.

The alternative … stay in chains? Bounded?

Something happens when you start to tell the truth (with integrity) …. a certain kind of peace takes over.

It may not change your circumstances overnight.  In fact they may get worse, for a while. 

But the inner fight, struggle and conflict ends.

Flow resumes despite circumstances and difficulties.

The work

Facing and growing through the lack of love is the work.  This is healing.  The work of becoming whole (watch more here).

Again, sounds easy right? :)

Wish it were so. 

Resistance, turning away, accepting disempowering labels, learning to sustain our own energy and not use other people. [Read post on regulating the Amygdala]

Grasping and gripping that’s blocking people, organisations and nations.

Creativity and innovation gone where?

Staying the course 

This is the bit that folk don’t get.

Most creative and innovative types like excitement.

But staying fluid like staying the course requires getting comfortable with the ordinary, the boring.

The getting up and doing the work - without gripping and expectation.

Sometimes seeing no results for some time.

For me it’s not so much about the results anymore, it’s who we become in the process.

New beginnings take place, higher versions unfold.

So when the fear is gripping, threatening creative flow, trust …

Trust the direction that’s unfolding.  

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