In part 1 of our Home Study of the book Positive Energy, we discussed the common habit of rushing from task to task in today’s society. We noted some simple ways to determine if we are rushing and observed how it keeps us from living in the Now. To review our last discussion, please visit “Home Study: Positive Energy, pt.1.” Today we will learn how to tell if we are living in the flow of life’s evolutionary Energy.
Today’s text: Positive Energy by Judith Orloff, M.D.
Published by: Three Rivers Press, 2004
Study page: p. 80-81
I love these two pages of text because they are so concise and illuminating. They contain–in classic Orloff style–clear descriptions of how it feels to be both in the flow of life or fighting against it. This concept is so important that my own spiritual Guides have mentioned it repeatedly over the course of our years together.
Perhaps the idea of flow is so fundamental because it describes the web of Energy within which we live every moment of our lives. Whether we recognize it or not, we are all connected within a current of Energy which presents us with the circumstances and lessons we agreed to encounter in this life. When we resist the very curriculum we set out to engage, we fight this larger current and therefore experience an energy of resistance and strain.
The ability to know if one is in the flow or not can certainly be sensed intuitively, but it can also be observed within various external life characteristics. When we are resisting the flow of our own Evolution we not only sense it deep within but also see it manifest in our lives at large. Illness, circumstantial challenges, relationship dramas and the like can all be signs of resisting life’s flow. Dr. Orloff describes the symptoms of pushing against the flow of life on page 81. Here are a few examples:
- feeling frazzled, impatient, desperate
- fixation on an object of obsession
- relationships are strained
- clenching during conflict rather that seeking compromise
- losing connection to a Higher Power
If you are feeling any of these symptoms in your daily life, chances are a part of your Energy is blocking the larger Universal Flow designed to help you grow into a more fulfilling life. So what’s the good news? That Flow can’t be blocked forever. True, it can be stifled throughout your physical lifetime if you really force it away, but eventually we all return to the Source–which is the Source of all flow. There we find our rest, our healing and our sense of inspiration to grow again.
Another bit of good news is that fighting life’s flow is so exhausting that most people cannot keep it up for an entire lifetime. Eventually, most people will cease their resistance and just “give up”–which is actually an act of surrender that allows a healthy sense of flow to commence once again. On pages 80-81 Dr. Orloff describes the signs of a life moving in tandem with the Universal Flow:
- acceptance of what Is
- not living in a sense of obsessive “overdrive”
- resolution is one’s goal during times of conflict
- time flows smoothly
- right timing is sought out in all choices
- feeling connected to a deeply spiritual state
Are you experiencing these fulfilling energies in your life? If so, chances are good you are currently living in flow with your Higher Soul’s goals in this life. Keep up the good work and stay resolved on continuing your positive Energy!
Taking a pen and a piece of paper or journal, contemplate the following this week:
1. What symptoms of “pushing against the flow” am I currently experiencing?
2. In what areas of my life do I seem to be fighting the flow the most (relationships, work, health)?
3. Which signs of positive flow am I currently manifesting?
4. Are there areas of my life that need more flow and if so, how can I draw that positive Energy into them?
In session three of our Home Study, we will be diving deeper into Positive Energy and investigating elements in our lives that drain our precious Life Energy…don’t miss it! Be sure to click and follow our blog so you can be alerted when our next discussion commences!
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Grace and Clarity 