When you are in the flow, you know it. It does feel like a flow, like moving
through water, going with the current. It’s easy. You feel light. You’re having
fun. The flow feels magical because it is mystical. The flow is the experience
of who you really are as it moves through life. It is the experience of Essence,
your true self. Once you experience the flow often enough, you don’t want to
go back to not being in the flow. But how do you get there and how do you
stay there? That is what this book explores.
Being in the flow and not being in the flow are two very different states
of consciousness. One is dominated by the ego-driven, or egoic, mind, while
the other is the domain of Essence, the Divine within you. Not being in the
flow is caused by identification with the egoic mind, which is most people’s
ordinary state of consciousness. Ego-identification is a state of unhappiness
and discontentment. Being in the flow, on the other hand, is the experience of
Essence as it lives life through us and fulfills its purpose for this life. It is an
experience of true happiness, peace, and contentment. We will explore each
of these states in depth and the interplay between them.
Author(s): GINA LAKE
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 172
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nature of Life
Who You Are—The Flow—The Ego and the I—The Life Plan—Discovering
Essence
Chapter 2: Challenges to Being in the Flow
The Ego’s Opposition to the Flow—Ego-Identification—Not Believing the
Flow Exists—Turning Away from the Flow—Being Identified with Thoughts
—Being Identified with Beliefs—Letting Fear Rule—Being Identified with
Feelings
Chapter 3: Overcoming the Challenges to Being in the Flow
Discovering the Flow—Choosing to Be in the Flow—Meditation—Inquiry—
Becoming Aware of Thoughts—Becoming Aware of Feelings—Identifying
Your Stories
Chapter 4: Getting into the Flow
Recognizing the Flow—Experiencing the Flow in Extraordinary Moments—
Dropping into the Flow in Ordinary Moments—Being Present—Being
Present to Whatever You Are Doing—The Power of Meditation
Chapter 5: Making the Flow Go
The Ego’s Relationship to the Flow—The Flow Has a Direction—Waking
Up—The Life Purpose—What Moves the Flow—Facilitators of the Flow—
Desire's Impact on the Flow’s Direction—Blockages to the Life Plan
Chapter 6: Co-creating with the Flow
Choosing by Deciding—Knowing all of a Sudden—Why the Ego's Decisions
Can’t Make You Happy—Another Way of Choosing—Co-creating with
Essence
Chapter 7: Finding the Flow
The Tyranny of the Egoic Mind—Getting Free from Ego-Identification and
Negativity—Ask and You Shall Receive—How Good Habits Keep Us out of
the Flow—How Bad Habits Keep Us out of the Flow—Habits that Bring Us
into the Flow
Chapter 8: Discovering the Direction of the Flow
Knowing and Not Knowing—Recognizing the Flow’s Direction—The
Feeling of Being in the Flow
Chapter 9: How Life Comes out of the Flow
How Planning Keeps You out of the Flow—How Planning Comes out of the
Flow—How Talking Comes out of the Flow—Work and Play—Creativity
Chapter 10: Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose
How Feelings Point to the Flow—How Ease Points to the Flow—How
Events Point to the Flow—How Longing Points to the Flow—How
Excitement Points to the Flow—How Opportunities Point to the Flow—How
People Point to the Flow—How Intuition Points to the Flow—How Talents
Point to the Life Purpose—How Family Points to the Life Purpose—How
Culture Points to the Life Purpose—Preparing for the Life Purpose—
Recognizing the Life Purpose—Success and the Life Purpose—The Timing
of the Life Purpose—Carrying out the Life Purpose—Fulfilling Your Destiny
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