To Induce States Of Flow

How to Enter The ‘Flow State of Flow’ At Any Time

 4 Simple Steps:

Step 1. Before you begin the activity, pause, then take three deep slow conscious breaths. Let the mind be fully engaged in the breath for that time and nothing else.

Step 2. Focus all of your attention in the present moment. Pretend for the moment that past and future do not exist. Take awareness to your sense perceptions.  Be fully present in the now.

Step 3. Slowly, with deliberate movements, go about your activity. Make it into a meditative practice but with an intensity of focus.

Step 4. Remain alert and keep the mind fully attentive to what you are doing in that moment only not allowing it to slip off into unconscious mind chatter. Be completely absorbed in the activity as if you had just been born into this world. You will find that the activity ‘comes alive’ when you practice it with mindfulness. If your mind does slip off into ‘autopilot’ simply guide it back to being intensely engaged in what your doing.

Here are 14 triggers to induce states of flow.

1. High Consequence
Put yourself at risk of failing. This is not restricted to just physical risks either. Emotional, intellectual, creative, and social risks work just as well.

2. Rich Environment
Create an environment where you’re surrounded by a lot of novelty, unpredictability and complexity.

3. Deep Embodiment
This is all about putting yourself into a multi-sensory immersion. For example, don’t just read about a new idea, but also start putting it into action at the same time.

4. Clear Goals

When you understand exactly what your immediate goal is, your mind does not need to worry about what to do next and your focus naturally tightens.

5. Immediate Feedback
Create a feedback loop that can help improve your performance in real-time. This way your mind is focused in the now and not wondering how to make something better.

6. It's A Challenge
If the challenge far outweighs our skills, fear seeps in. If it’s too easy, we’ll get bored. Find that sweet-spot between anxiety and boredom, and flow will kick in.

7. Familiarity
If you’re working on a team, get everyone on the same page so you can establish a common knowledge base and communication style.

8. Blending Egos
Steve Jobs described  this quite succinctly as, “a collective version of humility” where no one is hogging the spotlight and everyone is involved.

9. Sense of Control
This is all about combining autonomy and mastery. Choose your own challenges and have the necessary skills to surmount them.

10. Close Listening
Be fully present in the now when engaging in conversation. It’s all about allowing organic, real-time responses to unfold.

11. Always Say “Yes, and…”
Make your interaction additive as opposed to argumentative. Build momentum by continually amplifying each other’s ideas and actions.

12. Pattern Recognition
Allow your brain to link new ideas together by tackling problems from completely different (and sometimes outrageous) angles...

13. Taking Risk
Have the courage to bring these new ideas to the world. No matter how improbable you think it’ll succeed.

14. Complete and Utter Faith

Have faith in yourself and that the Universe is on your side, and Strengthen your own Faith in God.

Which of these triggers are you currently using to get into flow?

Abundance is trust 3.9

Abundance Is Trust

What's the big picture here? The big picture is that the perception of scarcity as a threat stems from a lack of trust in life. Trust is the solution. Scarcity is not a threat but  an invitation to wake yourself up and grow in the ways that truly matter. Scarcity can be a powerful focusing mechanisms – it gets your attention.

If focused on money as the answer to problems or as the solution to the perceived threats, you can sink deeper into an abyss... up to the knees if you like. That approach won't work; you'll get the opposite of what you want.

What if you might be self - creating your problems by the way you frame your presence within reality? Why not explore an alternative path of presupposing that reality is 100% on your side, that it has its own consciousness, in a way, and that it actually cares about you  and wants to help you grow?  

Think  of this life as a kind of  training school for consciousness. Maybe we start with an unsculpted baby consciousness, and through our interactions and lessons in this plane of existence our consciousness gets sculpted into something more structured.

Learn to trust it more, that's what helps to  pull us out of scarcity stuckness. Scarcity-based challenges aren't bad per se. They may show up multiple times throughout your life. They lead to stuckness when you resist them. They lead to growth experiences and some amazing character sculpting when you trust them and get yourself aligned with what they're trying to teach you.

Trying to do things for the primary purpose of making money  to have trinkets won't work. That kind of thinking is out of alignment with the purpose of this Life.  

It's like a parent guiding a small child away from something they do or encounter which will be self destructive, and not giving in  to the child's attempts to make an end run around the parent's action. In such situations it's best if the child learns to trust the finality of the parent's decision and that the parent has the child's best interests at heart. 

I've learned that when I maintain the perspective that the Universe has my best interests at heart, I feel centered within a delightful (yet sometime challenging) spiritual path. The types of challenges that show up are good ones, like mastering something, not the kinds of silly challenges that would just beat one down.

When I do things for the love of doing them, and when I understand that the role of money is to help facilitate interesting growth experiences and I treat money as such, then I usually find money flowing and easier to earn money from this perspective.

The Rules Change as You Learn and Grow

I've also noticed that the rules of Life seem to shift, they  don't remain static. They  evolve in terms of what behaviors Life will reward.

When we try to revisit what once worked for us in the past, looking for patterns  and then  repeating those patterns it results in inconsistency and stuckness. If the world were truly objective, then this would work but it doesn't.

Have you noticed a similar pattern in your life – that what used to work no longer works for you, even though it seems like your old success patterns should still be applicable today? Life wants us to keep growing in difference ways. Once we've learned what we needed from one level of experience, it's time to move on. We have more and different character sculpting to do. Continue to follow your path with a big heart.

One pattern I've seen is that life seems to be nudging me down a progression towards being more creative with my income sources, trusting myself more, and aligning these sources with who I am and  my strong points.

In past years all of my income sources were someone else's idea of what needs to be done for them or the client. My latest projects are different in being more creative with how I deliver value and honor my own strengths, it's all clean and fresh. To the surprise of no one,  Life rewards this behavior as it does when one follows a path with a big heart. The point is that when you get the subjective side right, the objective side (earning income money) tends to flow better and perhaps take care of itself.

I had to endure scarcity as a tutor in order to allow reality to mold and sculpt my mindset, my heartfelt thoughts and  images,  my expectations and skills. I had to trust what I felt. I had to trust my own uniqueness.

Manifesting your  abundance may be  elusive at times. When you frame scarcity challenges as threats and resist them, or when you try to cling to money with a sense of neediness, or when you treat money as a power source, you'll probably find that God's Universe, your reality, won't reward that mindset and your behavior.  

So the deeper challenge is to come up with the right framing and the right approach so that you aren't scaring money away all the time and getting yourself stuck. Same goes for other forms of abundance like social abundance, abundance of courage and lifestyle abundance.

Fortunately this does all work, but the solution paths may be counterintuitive for you . It takes a while to wrap our heads around since the solution for many people involves working on one's more powerful abundance heartset more than one's mindset.

Energy Vampires Part Five

Everything is about energy. The way you feel around certain people will tell you if this connection needs to be ceased or not.

As a result of constantly interacting with an energy vampire you might feel chronically fatigued, depressed, anxious, irritable or angry, leaving you feeling so drained that you are incapable of taking care of yourself. You need to understand that you are the guardian of your own energetic space. You need to safeguard your physical, emotional, and mental energy.

Luckily, energy vampires prefer negative energy since it matches their comfort zone. Keeping your energetic level high and maintaining positivity will eventually effectively repel one. Energy vampires think  they want your happiness; it may attract them at first but soon it's too good for them --- so they must abandon it or poison your cheery happiness before it can transform them.

They believe they want to be really alive like you, but they can be lazy and fear effort and would rather consume your life energy than generate their own. 

To live a healthy, happy, and positive life it is vital that you surround yourself with people who promote the same way of living. Having a circle of positive people around you repels energy vampires. They don't like crowds or even small gatherings. Spend as much time as possible with loving, nurturing, supportive, heart - centered people who make you feel safe and secure.

Like attracts like; positive attracts positive, negative attracts negative. 

Set limits with those who sap your energy and drain you, whether it's intentional or not.

Take an inventory of people who give you energy and those who drain you, define their role and importance in your life, then decide whether or not they're worth it. If not, cease  the connection.

To improve your relationships, increase your energy level and enhance the quality of your life.