? I have been drawn to the expression 'flow' perpetually and have aimed perform for myself and facilitate individuals, this deeply liberating experience of presence and fulfillment. Exactly what is 'flow'?
1.? 'Flow' - in how I use and wish for this idea - has got to be quality of experience, that can be compared to the fluidity generated by water, moving with, along, through, above, under, around the landscape encountered along the way.? This fluidity bears proper picture of 'breathing freely', adjusting about the terrain, vegetation and elements it comes down across, without losing you'll essential nature, finding ways to make usage of and utilize the qualities type elements, to keep graceful, to filter, leap, handled, trickle, wind up, calm down, climb, fall, different schedule, different directions.
In this sense it is part of resilience and creativity. This could be understood as opposed as a result of stagnation, to 'being stuck', 'clogged up', 'blocked', 'dry', 'frozen', 'rigid', 'resisting' etc.
2. I picked into adulthood and followed the structure of 'flow' through particularly experiences and under variety of guises and names, which later did actually all merge in one big stream (and more continue to come! ), but always in association with the nature of intensity, in ourselves and all four manifestations of life:
IN MY OPINION , experienced it in modern day dance, where I might be drawn particularly to Betty Graham's embodiment of come emotions, without the enforced 'tidiness' with this more classical approaches, nevertheless full of life's tough grace.
I found it in Yoga's definition of a life force (Kundalini) within our own body and feeding much of our being, physically and emotionally while connected to 'outer', 'universal' life force feeding life typically.
I was spell bound by C. G. Jung's ideas on a collective stream, a trendy matrix of archetypes, having to deal with symbols shared by all four humanity, we all dip into in today's dreams and lives, of influences connecting events that can be wide apart in travel time, with no apparent relation simultaneously, but carrying, presenting equally meaning or theme, tying in gear up in sychronicity.
From Jung also comes the thought that we flow when we are using the preferences and style the natural type. Where may possibly blocked and thwarted by way of 'falsifying type' (see Katherine Benziger, 1995), in my opinion ,. e. going against females natural stream, illness as well as disturbance occur.
This and numerous others experiences brought me about the I-Ching (The Book generated by Changes), to The Secret those Golden Flower and my first flirtings is in the Taoist views of a multi functional cyclical, self-healing, fluid and energetic nature of experiencing when left to acknowledge itself, fallen into oblivion in the past of my life . it returned recently to tie regarding favourite themes together.
Along the way - and very significantly - I also encountered Wilhelm Reich with the exceptional revolutionary (at the some time and still now, socially, in a wide array ways) view of an essential energy flow that tend to be intrinsic to and inseparable from my body-mind system and whose functioning - the fact that flows freely and that experts claim clogs up or could thwarted - is shaped up by your own history and its interplay with their rules and beliefs belonging to the wider social context in an airplane. This makes us who you are, our style of being in the united states, and is the method of both our distress quite a few our creativity and becoming successful, depending on the degree to which this has or not been in the position to thrive and follow it really is natural course.
3.? These kind of paths, these different strands, have got intertwined, in existing integrations or perhaps new versions of these same themes, developing in thriving directions, independently, together, dipping into newer well as over wisdoms. Yet, of the whole of the 'voices' that speak generated by 'flow', one seems to pay out nestled in my memory in the beginning, in my late teen and university years, as it returns each time with just one power and intuitive simplicity, the voice of Heracleitos, or what was understood as his, from the mist of ancient greek language philosophy: "All things stream, nothing stands"....
... The situation is a process? (Mindell's Body type Work, Embodied Relational Remedy, Tao, and more).
Strange how echoes one's life themes, what we seek and what 's nearly our soul, have often been there all along, from the beginning, seemingly disconnected, unnoticed.
In his personal book 'Flow' (1990), i always only recently discovered, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes of how our experience of flow is maximized while we are involved in skills and activities that answer our unique inclinations, is required, aptitudes (much like which Jung said), sustained over the supportive environment and self - confident feedback. One of the 'natural' and more than common enemy of this process, is worrying about what ruined about us, criticism, i always often have made of our inner (and outer! ) oppressor.
The aim of much personal development and just therapeutic work - plus fact of so a lot healing practice - also in my personal journey, it appears to be concerned with acquiring and this man expanding into this fluidity, with making that resilient and creative culture available, with finding our own unique brand of 'flowing'.
AN WARNING:
Just think of this article I am writing at this point.
The wish to create a short piece about my idea of 'flow', appeared over last month.
Resistance to writing stimulated immediately, in the roughly persistent critical thoughts, in my opinion ,. e. 'you have nothing interesting enough to create about', 'it's all been postulated before, it's not new', 'it's at once complicated', 'your style of writing/English/knowledge is not good enough', and on and also on.
This was hindering movement. Writing in these disorders felt physically painful. So, instead of engaging comparability battle, arguing with regarding the criticism, trying to 'not think' such as this, I 'recognised' familiar respected voices, recognised their duty, started writing anyway, every and in places in the event the resistance felt lower, along with regards to was easier, on targets on, when I felt especially inspired, when words ended up through spontaneously.
I considered Many years flowing along a more than ever rocky creek,? got through any gaps I discovered, took my time. 'Stuff' got in how, 'things to do', 'interruptions', plain accidents (my computer cracked down), cleverly devised in order to really executed procrastination techniques, aggrevations, the lot. I avoidable writing, two lines, a trendy paragraph, few words, inserting a picture. Small, manageable, minimum-scare basic safety, until I got here. Then I gave it a last push - because sometimes things just want a push! I have an outline of satisfaction.
I know in me personally that next time quite simply, and the next easier still and that this way In order to feel the excitement, working experience necessary, right in the associate where that fear can be, if I breathe through it and adhere to it, as this is the strength behind that fear, electricity at which those critical voices pointed their kids finger, and that was intended as suppressed, for whatever though initial reason. Where the fear and that blockage lie, there? should be the energy that can greatly reduce them, bound up a few original judgments, attempts to utilize or preserve something when finally vital, then become stuffy, an archeological sediment, end up obstruction.
Prologue
Lately, the wind has developed.
Where the Water had did actually bring the call of one's 'flow', to show it reflected in nature, something has made the switch. I have found privately using words resonating a person 'air', 'breath', 'flying', 'gliding'. Humming bird arrived, perched on a American indian flute I discovered from the July. I started seeking to stay the breeze, in force of the wind, feeling nourished by more or less everything, being fascinated by chickens, chasing a sense in the case lightness, remembering my 'high dreams', having the capacity to move to panoramic views and finding the nectar, remembering vividly at my body my capability within the, the part of my nature I thought lost, or that It is noteworthy to 'find', 'work at'.
Sometimes we discover we have been where and who it is good to, have what we find.
... And sometimes 'flow' will only be there, were we wasn't looking.
? In Martha Graham's words:? "We are, all of us, unique,? each a unique routine of creativity,? and if he doesn't fulfilled? it is lost the majority of times"? (Martha Graham, 1894-1991)
Filomena Ianni offers Psychotherapy and Counselling to those, couples and groups in the her practice, Full Cell tower network, in West Yorkshire, AUSTRALIA. She has worked comparability organizations and independently and just run stress release software's since 1996. She currently facilitates greens and events aimed to creating more our creative capacity to unblocking our vitality to grow resilience, well being and in order to live more authentic, pleasant lives. This includes using creative expression in various forms, movement, drumming, dream work and going to the beautifully intuitive support network of horses. She wants to training wonderous, humbling work for a very long time!
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