How to Go With the Flow

In our society, we often use the phrase, "Go withcould've, and would've, you are fighting the flow.
the flow." Many of us have not given any thoughtIn fact, you are stopping it to analyze it instead
as to what that means. Going with the flowof moving with it. You are spending your present
means moving with the flow of events. It meansmoments analyzing the past moments...moments
that you move with the present, and you do notwhich you can do nothing about. You are using
fight against it. The present is also known asthe moments you have choice about to ponder
"current." It is the energy of one event happeningmoments you cannot change.
after another. By staying connected with theMoving with the flow of events requires a trust
current, you flow with it. With flow, you are nothat everything is exactly as it should be. There is
longer resisting the events of your life. Youan understanding that there is nothing wrong and
understand that every event that occurs in yourthat everything happens for a reason that
life had to happen exactly as it did. At the level ofbenefits us, even when we don't understand it.
spiritual energy, there are no mistakes.The spiritual person realizes that this isn't always a
Everything that happens in your life happens for apleasant experience. Situations will come up that
reason that benefits you. We always say thatmay be difficult to deal with and possibly painful.
"everything happens for a reason," but weWhere the vast majority of people will complain
conveniently leave off the fact that it happens forabout the situation and will wish for something
reason that benefits us. We may neverelse, the spiritual person will allow himself to
consciously see how that situation benefits us, butexperience the emotions he has attached to the
it inevitably holds a pearl for us that we need onlycircumstance. He will see that the situation is what
to see, experience, feel, or hear.it is, and will claim full responsibility for the
The spiritual person moves with the flow of theemotions he generated about it. He will also
present. She doesn't spend time wishing that thiscontinue to flow with the event. Despite his
moment were anything different than what itopinions about the event itself, he will continue to
already is. She experiences it, accepts it, andmove with it and not make a decision to move
makes a decision about how she will see it. Sheagainst that flow because of the emotions he is
spends no time on how the situation could havefeeling. He will look inwardly for the next action or
been, should have been, or would have been. Shewait for the next action to become obvious.
accepts now and flows with it.Rather than fight, he thinks movement. This is
When you indulge yourself into the should've,what it means to flow.