Tuning Into the Flow

Inner Guidance

Tuning into the flow, being able to listen to the energy that guides us in our lives every day requires a consciousness or awareness of slowing down and listening to what we are experiencing.

In December I chose to involve myself with assisting my husband, who is a photographer, with the hectic Christmas photography schedule he was involved in. As well as working at my own commitments, I would rush off after appointments with clients, to assist him. He had a contract at a local mall to photograph Santa and the children who came to visit Santa. This was something that started December 4th and continued through Christmas Eve.
Consequently I found myself working 14 hours a day almost every day during this period.

The ability to tune into myself became something long forgotten. I barely remembered to buy groceries in my efforts to handle everything I thought I had to. I do remember stopping once or twice and thinking to myself. " I don't even know who I am right now..I can only see myself by what I am doing".

Well, as we go too far one way, our bodies often compensate for the choices.

Not 2 days after the photography was finished and I had then tried to pull together a family Christmas day.. I took on the flu which literally stopped me in my tracks. I had 10 days of feeling so weak that the only choice was to lie on the couch. There was all of a sudden an abundance of time to get in touch with myself once again.. I would say that the spirit and body went into rebellion!

I have to admit that instead of giving in and allowing myself to listen, I instead fretted about the work I was missing and what I still wanted or felt I needed to do. I didn't take notice of the signals... at least not many of them.
As I pushed myself to get well and back into a hectic pace of work, I thought I had it all under control. Little did I know what was in store for me.

Early February I had a car accident on a snowy Sunday morning, one of our last snowstorms in this area. I was on my way back from helping a client who had asked for my assistance. (Maybe working on a Sunday was not what I should have been doing.)

So I had the experience of totally wrecking the car but getting out only with a sore tailbone and bruised hip, enough to slow me down and yet no serious damage. I wondered what the message was at the time and the next day received a ticket for the accident which stated " I was going too fast for the current conditions" Well, I thought getting a message can't be much clearer than that!

The next six weeks became an exercise in listening to my body. The slightest stress or physical exertion stopped me quickly from pushing myself into any kind of activity, work or choice that may have wanted to make.

I became an expert in listening to myself, what felt Ok and what felt stressful. As the weeks went on, this listening to myself became more than just a consciousness of what was good for my body or not. I started noticing that when I tried to do something, even before I started trying it, I would get the feeling of stress or flow inside myself. When I attempted to do that which had stress signals attached to it, it was full of blocks and things that frustrated me. If I continued with the things that gave me the feeling of flow.. I was able to do these things easily and things happened to support the whole process.

Now that I am better, I am continuing to practice this listening to my self. Goals that I have set or things I want to attain are happening more easily for me because now I stop, think about how I think I want to make something happen and listen for the stress or flow signals. There have been many instances already where when I have chosen out of doing things when I get stress feelings thinking about doing it a certain way. When I let go of that plan and find another one that feels like it has flow.. I get what I want, often much faster than I ever imagined.

I now see that I have learned a lesson of staying aware, living in the experience of tuning into the flow, listening to my self guidance and finding out that I can get still get where I want to be.
Tuning into the Flow.. it makes life easier!

One really interesting thing that has come out of this experience as well has been the new car that I ended up buying after the accident. I have had a vision board in my home with a picture of a silver sports car on it as a car I would like to own in the future.

Well by following the flow signals when I went car shopping I found this dream car at a price I could afford and now have something I only dreamed of and got it faster than I ever imagined it could be in my life!

If this is what happens when I follow the flow.. I'll be listening from now on!... smile

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