Go With Your Flow

Go with your flow.

Not with THE flow, but with your flow.

I am a big lover of going with the flow, of honoring life’s inherent wisdom and timing, and with taking the path of least resistance. But even though I KNOW the power of this way of living (from experience), and LOVE the feeling of this when I do it… actually doing it consistently is a whole other matter.

One of the reasons for that is that I (like most people in this society) was trained to try to master, control and be-on-top of all things at all times, to know all the answers, to have it all figured out, and to not let anyone see my weaknesses or my flaws.

That training was essentially to be perfect. A perfect performance machine. This was not limited to work, looks or body either. I was also to be a perfectly woke, self-aware, awake, empowered personal growth performance machine as well.

I was to tick all the boxes off all my issues and relegate them to the “been there, done that, over that” bin.

But alas… I am none of that.

I make mistakes, I fail, I have blind spots, I have needs and weaknesses, I still struggle with loads of stuff all the time, and I am in a growth spiral that never ends and never will.

So I am un-training myself from those trainings every day, in big and small ways. And I love helping other people un-train from that too, and touch into the NATURAL place of joy and ease and self-trust that lives within us all, at all times, no matter how deeply it may seem buried.

But the real reason it seems harder to go with the flow in practice than in theory is because we’ve been trained to go with other people’s flow instead of with our own flow WITH and AS life itself.

When you were young, going with the flow probably meant going along with what other people wanted you to do or be, not going with the flow of LIFE and where its current wanted to take you…

so of COURSE you don’t trust it now.

But that was not YOUR flow, nor was it life’s flow, it was simply how you were UNDERSTANDING the flow of life at that time. You understood that when you did what people wanted, or what pleased them, things seemed to flow better for a time, even if it hurt YOU…

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