Your life has many streams feeding into it. Some result from your choices and some just come from grace. The combination creates the nature of your waterway. Depending on how you view and respond to what flows your way, your experience will range somewhere between calm and turbulent, clean and polluted, straight and winding, exciting and dull. The quality of your river can only be accurately assessed by you because you’re the one floating down it. The current is going one way. Don’t paddle upstream. The best results usually come when you go with…
Your flow.
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Going with the flow can produce complacency. Drifting along may allow your attention to wander, allowing external events to control your destination. Sometimes it’s better to paddle against the flow, asserting your will to alter your direction.
Hi Michael, Thanks for your comment. Can you give an example of a when it’s better to paddle upstream? We agree that drifting along can produce complacency and allow attention to wander. Drifting along and consciously going with ‘your’ flow however, are different. Consciously choosing to accept what is, as it is, prevents the time wasted from arguing with reality and helps one get on with creating solutions. Paddling upstream can leave you exhausted and often back where you began. What anyone wants is rarely upstream (in the past.) The flow is the present moment, and seems to us the only real point of power.