Listening for flow

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making plans.” - John Lennon

What if there were no goals to achieve or areas of life to divide up into segments? What if you knew you already lived the highest and brightest version of You, in all that you do?

Up until this moment you just didn’t know it.

We have a habit of dividing the areas of our life up into to segments in an attempt to create balance - family life, work life, me time, us time.

The list is endless - I know.

I’m a sucker for writing lists and attempting to put areas of my life onto a piece of paper and into a schedule of when to do what.

I’ve noticed it is my go-to thing that I do when I feel the most overwhelmed.

I do it to control. As if it is possible for me to control and make solid the fluidity of life itself.

I make those lists and schedules less and less nowadays.

I have become more sensitive to the subtle hints life gives me, that lets me know whether I’m mesmerised by the thoughts in my head or listening from my heart.

A few of the hints life gives me? Easily irritated or impatient with small things, like the zipper on my jacket not zipping the first time around. Breathing from my chest and not my belly.

Are you moving with the gentle flow of life or trying to control the current?
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