Do you flow through your life with ease? Or is it filled with struggle, like you’re moving through a pool of thick mud?
Is it a dream of yours, to have less effort? To have that elusive flow, that people love to talk about but you can’t seem to get?
We all have obstacles in our lives. Barriers outside ourselves, barriers within.
Many seem like you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, staring up at a sheer face wondering how you’re gonna get to the top.
According to Taoism, the answer is clear.
We let go of control, adapt naturally, and be like WATER.
What is flow like? WATER right?
Water does not worry about obstacles. It just flows around them. In fact, water has a dealing with the toughest obstacles, flowing AROUND and THROUGH them, or over time, even ERODING them away.
And by the way, may I remind you that YOU are composed 60% of water! YOU have the power of water within you already!
So do you feel like your life is full of effort? Lacking in flow?
If so, may I invite you to try this…
Close your eyes. Take a few deep, calming breaths.
Then imagine a body of water. It appears in front of you. It is slowly moving, serenely flowing around.
Now imagine yourself merging with the water. Feel yourself become the water, gaining all its powers – its ability to flow around things, through things, even eroding things away to NOTHINGNESS.
Now imagine yourself as water in your life. See you flowing through your life with all the obstacles, blocks, and barriers now appearing before you. See yourself coming up to them, and then FLOW around them. They do not stop you; water doesn’t work like that! You go AROUND them, OVER them.
Stay with the power of water for a few moments more, and the come back to awareness of where you are.
With the power of water resonating with you, how might you flow like water around or with your life’s problems? How does life feel for you now, embodying the power of water?
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