17/1/2014 0 Comments Flow Like WaterThis post was originally on Jupiter's Animal Healing... It has been some time since I last posted here... I will not go into reasons or explanations but I will say that the majority of my daily life is lived 'in the flow' and it wasn't until recently that I had realised that there were actually some areas where this was not the case... I was reminded of this recently with walks in amongst nature.... it was at these points in time of sharing sacred space with an equal that I understood that for all areas of my life to flow this ideal must be applied to every aspect of it... not just some of it... these moments of precious reflection and connection are vital and an essential part of who I am... in those moments I am exactly where I want to be... My life has many moments of sheer joy and exhilaration... it is in these moments that I know I am in the flow of life... allowing things to come and go as the tide on a sandy beach... experiencing emotions in their fullness and not feel guilty or ashamed for doing so... allowing my external self to be an expression of who I am on the inside... When I am with animals I do not put any judgement on the way things should go... how long a healing session should be... or what time I am meant to be with another client.... no, all I do is be still and be swallowed by the moment... I have learned to be in the 'now' of things and from that point whatever happens comes in as a flowing energy... Many years ago I would write from my heart on a daily basis... it was a powerful healing experience for me and also one that allowed me to connect with higher sources to bring in information.. Yesterday I went for a wonderful walk in amongst nature in a beautiful mountain region... it was raining and the mists were surrounding the mountain side... it reminded me so much of a time when I once lived in the mountains... it also reminded me of how much I miss them and how they feel like home to me... Along the walk I came to an area where I was above a thundering waterfall... it was a beautiful, magical feeling to be there and feeling the power coming down from the mountain and falling over the edge to the valley below... watching the water cascading over the rocks and varied surfaces to get to its destination... it was in that very moment the writing came alive again.... People struggle on a daily basis of how they think things should be, their own attachments to how their goals should be, even relationships have something attached to them in regards to how they are perceived. In doing this people become disconnected to who they really are, their true power and creative flow that exists within. It becomes tiresome and exhausting... When people are trying too hard to make something happen or something just doesn't feel right or good it creates a sense of struggle inside.. a struggle of going against the current... But when you allow things to flow... you know it because it feels so good... there is no struggling... it creates a “YES” within your entire body system... everything starts to feel right... the right time... the right people... the right places... everything starts to move as you are propelled forward on your path.... By allowing ourselves to go with the flow we become like water... this is a philosophy of Tao... to be like water... When watching water you can see it does not resist... it has no goals to conquer... it does not try to press its intention of anything of how it should act or be... it has no plans on what should or should not be happening... it just 'is'... It is flexible and soft... just as we can be if we chose to stop the struggle within ourselves... to treat everyone as equal... to allow people to be guided by their own path... And just like water our life can take a change in direction in an unexpected way... it can confuse us and unsettle us when this happens... in these times we battle the change of events as we don't feel they will serve us or what we want... however when water has a change of direction it calmly finds the path of least resistance... one that carries it over obstacles that have presented themselves to the flowing water... the ability of water is to not be affected by the external situations that are around it but instead to be in constant movement... it shows us that sometimes we have no control over our journey's direction but our destination will still be arrived at... Water is free... it does not hold thoughts of fear or expectations.. it just is... there are no pressures of societal conditioning... it does not have an agenda of being something it is not... instead it soothes and caresses the surfaces it goes over... it changes with the landscape and does so in a way that is like a dance of effortlessness... however with the gentleness contained in water it is also powerful... water can create great things by its constant flow... Our own intuitiveness tries to guide us so that we do not have to constantly struggle... we do not have to travel a path full of many obstacles... that there is a much smoother path waiting for us to travel that will take us to our goal.. our destination that is part of our purpose in life... our inner guide, our soul, wants us to be free so that we can experience everything that is offered us in a more fully lived way... We often block this inner knowingness by bringing into our thoughts ones of rationality... many of which are based on past experiences... past events... past learning... even our own upbringing can play a role in the way we think or perceive how things should be going... we become fixated on the outcome and the way it is meant to happen that life sometimes just slips by us as we continue to struggle up a hill that has no end... By allowing ourselves to be as water we give ourselves permission... we open ourselves to new experiences.. new directions... new information... new paradigms that we did not know we could attain or reach... we become more of what we were destined to be... we no longer stagnate and become free... Life is a sensual dance that brings us closer to our other self... it is a path that takes us on many journeys and often times one that is full of many lessons if we are willing to but learn from them so that our destination becomes closer to us... if not the lessons are repeated over until we reach the point of realisation of what it contained for us... Our lessons can be be gentle or hard it is all based on our willingness to be subtle and gentle as the water or hard and rigid like a rock... Life is sensual... it is a dance... it is passion... it is the water that flows gently over rocks ... “Live as water lives, since you are water. Become as contented as is the fluid that animates and supports you. Let your thoughts and behaviors move smoothly in accordance with the nature of all things. It is natural for you to be gentle, to allow others to be free to go where they are inclined to go and to be as they need to be, without interference from you. It is natural to trust in the eternal flow. Be true to your inner intentions.” ~ Wayne Dyer This work by Tania Collier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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