Being in harmony with the flow is radically different than trying to control outcomes.
When we are in the greatest sensation of “harmony,” when we feel like we are being joyously carried along in life, we often say we are in a “flow state.” That is, everything is progressing without an external force or outside effort – life is dancing by its own wondrous volition! Technically, this “flow” is happening all around us, yet many times we feel we are out of it. In disharmony. Discord.
But rest assured, believe it or not – this is normal.
The perfect analogy to all this, is that of a great river. Now rivers, like all nature, are curving and meandering – they never simply flow in a straight line. At times they flow easily over rocks, while elsewhere the water may get squeezed while passing through a narrow channel … Yet the river itself still reaches … still joins … the greater ocean.
It is the same with the journey of your consciousness while you are unfolding into … well, the Universe. You are a flow of dynamic, spiritual energy, akin to a river. And also – like a river – your energy is not vibrating in a straight or static mode; it is always meandering, curving, twisting into new varieties of expression.
Now, when you can achieve greater levels of harmony within your Self – when you can be “at one” within your consciousness and the environment you are entwined with – you naturally feel more happiness. More joy! This happiness is a heightened state of flow that works just like a portion of the river that reaches its maximum flow capacity … That is, larger portions of harmony create a greater force for creation. In terms of a river, this force has given the water the ability to carve its shores. Again, this came about not by trying to control the river – but by the very nature of the water’s own driving currents being married into one harmonious state. That unity has turned the river into a creative power.
And so it is with us.
Of course, all things in nature curve and meander, so this level of harmonious flow will eventually lessen, but the river’s currents still find their way perfectly to the sea.
Likewise, we come into harmony, we go out of harmony, but we continuously flow towards the betterment of our unfolding and joining with the wider universe – which, at its foundation, IS YOU.
Now, the river’s flow - whether large or small - also feeds and supplies the shore upon either of its banks. Therefore, the river is providing sustenance beyond itself – which is a most wonderful thing when in perfect flow, but disastrous when the river gets dammed… to control it… which is the extreme man goes to in not trusting the natural course of the flow, whether with nature or within himself.
There is a sinister habit of not trusting who and what we are. We do not trust our own river of consciousness. And when we deliberately try to control it from this state of suspicion or fear, we not only hurt ourselves, but we blow all of humanity up as we extend such distrust and suspicion outside ourselves onto others. And then we wonder “why” the world is so messed up.
We never gave nature a chance. We never gave our own consciousness a chance – as our consciousness is just as much a part of nature as a winding river.
Nature and its meandering curves works in perfect harmony with itself … The river feeds the shores … the shores grow plants … plants sustain so many various forms of life, all kinds of things -- another rung on a great ladder that leads to dynamic, life affirming eco-systems … ALL WRAPPED UP … where we ourselves come out of …
So, in other words, this great natural harmony is happening now. It is happening every-where and every-when. Indeed, It is happening INSIDE YOU, as well OUTSIDE, but your limited perceptive mechanisms don’t give you the full picture.
So you have to learn to trust. Trust IN HARMONY. Trust IN THAT FLOW because that is where you are. Yet you fight against that current. Because right now, we TRUST MORE in DISHARMONY. We give more credence to CHAOS. And we experience what we tell ourselves we believe.
Know that your consciousness, your spirit, is just like the flow of a river. And when you are in those peaks of harmonized currents – you sustain and create LIFE positively; in coordination with the Universe – nay, not in coordination – but as the Universe itself, for you are ONE with it. It is YOU and YOU ARE IT.
Trust that flow. For when you step out of it or against it, you are only fighting … YOUR SELF.