Recognizing Flow

Recognizing Flow

When you hear about being in the state of flow, what does that mean to you? What are the circumstances that show you that you are experiencing flow? Where and how does it feel? Can you pinpoint a place in your body that is like your barometer of flow for you?

Being in a state of flow means different things to different people; it is all based on what or who they are aligned with and where their focus is. If you are focused on relationships, your state of flow might reflect the condition of your current relationships and if you are continuing to attract the same qualities in meeting new people. Are you attracting people who support your current relationships and add value to your life? If the focus is on creating financial wealth, the state of flow would be reflected in the amount and quality of opportunities presenting themselves; as well as what the outcomes of these opportunities are. Are you truly in alignment with the type of financial wealth you are wanting to create? What are the types of opportunities that are coming to you reflecting to you? Are they moving you forward or are they showing you that you have not yet set your standards high enough?

When we are in flow, it looks as though everything is working. Our emotional life is stable, we are physically healthy and we feel a sense of joy about our lives. Our body reacts to outside stimuli in an appropriate and concise manner. Our health, our mind, and our spirit all benefit from these abundant times. In turn, our health, mind, and spirit also tell us when we are not in flow, when we are out of alignment, out of flow. Usually, there is one area of your body, one body system that will signal you when you are in and out of flow. For some the heart and throat chakras are the indicators, other people report their solar plexus and abdominal chakras to be the areas that communicate this to them. To be able to recognize this takes practice. You must find the awareness of the messages that your body is sending to you, correlate these messages with your current situation, and you will soon learn how your body reacts to being in and out of flow.

Physical Contact and Judgememt

How is it, that one can be so spiritually developed but yet still have the “need” for physical contact you ask? Is this “need” related to an issue of lack, or is it simply a basic human need. It is only when you, as a human, judge your physical interactions as immoral, that you cause yourself distress and anxiety about your actions. We would say that your in-action on the topic of your desire is what leads you to create situations that your soul is not in alignment with. Thus, you feel the dissonance in the vibration of the event and your fear of not being regarded as moral causes you to judge yourself and others who have participated in this behaviour.

Of course, in your human form, you have physical desire for touch, stimulation, sex, caressing and the like. This is normal. It serves you in many ways. It grounds you, gives your body hormones that are necessary for balanced functions of your brain, heart, and various other organs, not to mention keeping your body flexible and your joints well lubricated. But what of the mental distress you cause yourself through judgement?

Expectation, attachment, and judgement are all related. If you decide to fill your need for physical contact with an experience and then condemn yourself for it, why do it in the first place? Wasn’t the point to bring a bit of pleasure into your life? When you engage in any aspect of Love, whether it be physical or emotional, and you carry expectations into the interaction, you are setting yourself up for disappointment, and this interaction is coming from a place of an imbalance within yourself. Not to mention that this type of interaction is not unconditional. The conditions of, “If I engage with you and you don’t continue to spend time with me, I will not keep you in my life”; and the like, create an imbalance within your heart space not only for yourself, but towards the others.

Next time you have this desire, be sure to ask yourself, “Am I craving physical contact, or the feeling of Love that physical contact brings?” If it is the comfort and pleasure that physical stimulation brings and you decide to act upon that desire, be sure to leave expectation and attachment at the door. This will alleviate the “morning after syndrome”. If it is the feeling of Love that you are seeking, evaluate the external situation, and then decide if engaging in physical contact will give you that feeling. If not and you are willing to seek another way to fill that void, go for it.

Save yourself heartache and self-degradation, be true to who you are, and SHINE.

Shine On Brilliant Stars

Arch Angel Gabriel

Channelled through Constance Fairleight.