Understanding Your Flow
Trust the Flow
Sometimes flow is like a song you can’t shake. It sneaks in, sets up camp, and before you know it, you’re moving in step with its rhythm - not because you chose to, but because it chose to you.
It can show up in other ways, too. How you brace against a strong gust of wind. How you steady your footing in a rushing current. Or even in the simple pulse of your own breath. Over time, these responses settle in - familiar, almost second nature - reminding us that we’re always adjusting to the rhythms around us.
Even on a subconscious level, we move with what feels familiar. A scream in the night. Sirens breaking the silence. Soft music carrying us into rest. The sound of our own breath when we get the chills. We don’t think these things through; we react. Our responses may be universal, almost automatic, but they’re sensory - and they tell us something important.
Flow is Our Truth
Flow arrives much the same way - quietly, almost without notice. There’s no grind, no push, no sudden burst of effort. Instead, it feels like an energy that simply appears, guiding us without fanfare.
There’s a comfort in it, an unspoken recognition that something has shifted and yet feels familiar. We don’t always see it in the moment, but over time, we learn to trust it: this is our flow. Grounding. Natural. True.
What Disrupts Our Flow
Flow isn’t about the big, life-changing events. Those demand our attention whether we want them to or not. Flow is the ordinary - the unnoticed, everyday current that keeps us steady. It’s in the morning routines, the familiar routes, the small comforts that fly beneath the radar.
And when something interrupts that - when the alarm doesn’t go off, when the tire goes flat, when the rhythm of work shifts - we suddenly realize just how much flow was holding us together.
Life has a way of testing that current: health challenges, responsibilities, and the deadlines we set for ourselves. But flow doesn’t vanish. It moves. It pauses. It bends. That’s often how we come to know it best. Because when we notice the disruption - when we feel off, or sense that we’re “out of our element” - we’re reminded that flow is still there. The very act of noticing proves its presence.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
Rumi
Even a slow river finds its course challenged as seasons change. Ice forms. Trees fall. Winds shift. Yet the water keeps moving, finding another way forward.
So do we. We adjust almost instinctively, because we’ve come to know how our flow moves.
The Foundation of Flow
That’s what makes flow a foundation. It steadies us not because life is predictable, but because the current itself endures.
Flow follows us through the day. It becomes a quiet guide, a silent partner. Once we recognize it, it never leaves us.
The point isn’t to control it. The point is to trust it. To trust that it will carry us forward. Always.
“Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Talk soon…
G