| In our society, we often use the phrase, "Go with | | | | could've, and would've, you are fighting the flow. |
| the flow." Many of us have not given any thought | | | | In fact, you are stopping it to analyze it instead |
| as to what that means. Going with the flow | | | | of moving with it. You are spending your present |
| means moving with the flow of events. It means | | | | moments analyzing the past moments...moments |
| that you move with the present, and you do not | | | | which you can do nothing about. You are using |
| fight against it. The present is also known as | | | | the moments you have choice about to ponder |
| "current." It is the energy of one event happening | | | | moments you cannot change. |
| after another. By staying connected with the | | | | Moving with the flow of events requires a trust |
| current, you flow with it. With flow, you are no | | | | that everything is exactly as it should be. There is |
| longer resisting the events of your life. You | | | | an understanding that there is nothing wrong and |
| understand that every event that occurs in your | | | | that everything happens for a reason that |
| life had to happen exactly as it did. At the level of | | | | benefits 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 a | | | | pleasant experience. Situations will come up that |
| reason that benefits you. We always say that | | | | may be difficult to deal with and possibly painful. |
| "everything happens for a reason," but we | | | | Where the vast majority of people will complain |
| conveniently leave off the fact that it happens for | | | | about the situation and will wish for something |
| reason that benefits us. We may never | | | | else, the spiritual person will allow himself to |
| consciously see how that situation benefits us, but | | | | experience the emotions he has attached to the |
| it inevitably holds a pearl for us that we need only | | | | circumstance. 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 the | | | | emotions he generated about it. He will also |
| present. She doesn't spend time wishing that this | | | | continue to flow with the event. Despite his |
| moment were anything different than what it | | | | opinions about the event itself, he will continue to |
| already is. She experiences it, accepts it, and | | | | move with it and not make a decision to move |
| makes a decision about how she will see it. She | | | | against that flow because of the emotions he is |
| spends no time on how the situation could have | | | | feeling. He will look inwardly for the next action or |
| been, should have been, or would have been. She | | | | wait 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. |