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 Flow
is an important concept as the soul moves forward
in community. A good sense of flow allows a
person to be willing to change directions at
any moment without feeling that they are being
pushed and shoved or bobbing aimlessly in stormy
seas. Insisting on sticking to an agreed upon
plan prohibits flow in the world. Now, of course,
this must be balanced with respect for other
people involved. This whole situation is analogous
to guarding someone in basketball. If you are
rigidly in place, they will be able to dribble
around you. If you are flexible, aware, and
balanced, you will be able to keep up with the
forward and stick with them no matter how they
shift their position. That is very much like
life. You can have a general goal and ideas
about how things might work out, but you don't
want to be so attached to that position that
even better ideas sail right past you because
you are so stuck on a particular form that a
goal must take.
The real trick is to learn how to differentiate
intuition from wimping out. That is a problem
that every soul in community has. When are you
avoiding something that you feel fearful about
and when are you altering plans so that you
stay in the flow of things?
Another aspect of being in the flow is to trust
that other people are in the flow as well. It
is important not to hold them rigidly to past
guidelines if that is not what moves them at
that moment. Trust that their flow supports
your flow. There will be some time of dis-ease
as people begin to move with flow. At this point
in the evolution of mankind, some people are
in the flow most of the time and others are
barely aware of the flow. Also, lives are set
up mostly to ignore flow. Lives are generally
set up to make things happen, not support things
in happening. For that reason, there
is lots of sense of disconnect and rough edges
bumping up against each other. Don't be alarmed
by it; simply notice it. This is a transition
period and in a transition period, things are
moving and shifting. People are changing their
attitudes and behaviors. Changes don't happen
in a completely orderly fashion. That is all
that is going on here. It is absolutely temporary.
The best attitude to carry in this time of transition
is of bemused gentle awareness. Don't get caught
up in whether or not another person was in the
flow or in fear when they canceled their appointment
with you. It just happened. Trust that if it
happened at all, it was in the flow of your
tapestry of life, even thought that flow is
not immediately apparent. Let it go.
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