My name is Sangeet and today I want to share with you something about going with the flow.
We can hear often this expression and every time we hear it,
Somehow it may deeply resonate with us,
Because it feels right,
It feels good.
This is because those words don't seem to carry any resistance.
They emanate a sense of movement,
Freedom,
Tranquility,
Acceptance,
Allowance and trust,
Everything that we are naturally made of.
Now,
Despite the fact that this expression sounds so true,
I feel the need to clarify some sort of confusion that can be associated.
Going with the flow may also give the impression that there is nothing to choose or to decide,
Because all there is,
Is some kind of force that pushes us forward without any need for action.
We just go with everything that happens.
The thing is that we have a strong ability to decide and to choose for ourselves,
And even if we want to believe that we are not deciding or choosing in a particular moment,
We are in fact doing it anyway,
Consciously or unconsciously.
Not deciding is a decision by itself,
The decision of not deciding anything by maintaining ourselves in a particular situation,
Or just accepting whatever comes out of that.
This means that embracing the expression going with the flow may induce us into a passive state of being in which we not only don't react,
But we also don't respond,
And so we don't choose what is best for us.
Now,
If the idea of going with the flow feels and sounds so good,
What is behind that,
That actually is so true?
This expression is in fact just another way to say following our heart or following our intuition,
And this is because when we follow our heart,
Or intuition,
Or inner guidance,
And we truly accept and trust it,
It actually feels like going with the flow.
When we go with the flow,
We go with the universe,
We go with who we are as souls,
We choose love over fear,
And so we flow,
Like a river,
We fly high as a bird,
A bird that touches everything that before seemed out of reach.
But following our heart requires decisions and choices,
Sometimes hard ones that go against our will,
But in result of that,
We feel more free and stronger than ever.
Flow means allowance,
No resistance,
And it is by releasing any fear that we can actually manifest the actual flow.
Let me give you an example.
Let's say that we are part of a group of people,
And we are happy about it,
But then something happens,
And we find out that for some reason we and those people are not on the same page.
In our heart,
We feel that continuing in this group will put us in a position of agreeing with something that goes against our integrity.
But leaving that group is something that we don't wish to do,
Because the process of leaving something behind can carry some fear.
In this case,
We could be tempted to forget about it and to continue as nothing happened,
Because we actually enjoy other things that the group provide us.
And for a moment,
We could think that by continuing,
We are going with the flow,
Because going with the flow may sound like doing nothing at all.
The thing is that by keeping ourselves as part of that group,
We are actually doing something.
We are choosing to stay close to those people and far from ourselves,
From our values and priorities,
And this is far from going with the flow.
To really go with the flow,
We would choose to go with what our heart would tell us to do,
Which in this case would be leaving those people.
And in order to experience the real flow,
We would have to release any fear,
To trust that everything would work in our favor,
And in result of that,
We would feel free.
So,
Going with the flow is far from doing nothing at all.
Going with the flow is listening,
Trusting,
And applying our intuition.
The only action that we don't have to do is to stop ourselves from experiencing what is best for us,
What serves us the most.
And yes,
In that sense,
Going with the flow doesn't require much action,
Because,
Guess what,
We human beings tend to spend more energy sabotaging ourselves than doing something in our favor.
In fact,
If we would remove all the action that we do against us,
All of a sudden,
It would feel as if we were the most passive,
Non-action-oriented light beings in the world.
So,
Today,
Let's go with the flow,
Not with others' flow,
Or with a flow that doesn't feel the right one for us,
But the flow that shines and makes us shine the most.
Let's go with the most beautiful flow,
And let's allow the Universe to manifest back that same beauty into our lives.
