How To Get In The Flow State - (Getting Rid of Resistance and Into The Zone)
Summary
TLDRThe video explains the concept of 'being in the flow', which is when someone is fully aligned with the current of their soul and the universe, allowing them to tap into peak productivity and fulfillment. It provides examples of how resisting this natural flow leads to exhaustion and misery, while aligning with it enables ease and joy. Practical tips are offered for getting into this optimal state, like following inspirations immediately, being completely present, and tuning into one's internal sense of 'rightness'. The ultimate message is that committing to flow alignment allows one to live their dreams and discover their life purpose.
Takeaways
- 😀 Being in flow means aligning your internal energy with your soul's purpose and external currents
- 🌊 Your emotions indicate if you're in flow or not
- 🏄♂️ Making big life decisions against your soul's purpose creates resistance
- ⚡ Act fast on inspirations to catch their wave of energy
- 🧘♂️ Meditate to tune into your internal alignment
- 🚦 Follow synchronicities as signs you're in flow
- 💡 Inner rightness feels expansive and without contradictions
- 🌀 Getting into flow is a lifelong practice as everything is always changing
- 😊 Follow your joy to stay aligned with your life's purpose
- 🏖 By committing to flow you'll live your dreams
Q & A
What is meant by 'being in the flow'?
-Being in the flow refers to when we are aligned with and going with the current of energy from our soul. It feels like inspiration, excitement, passion, appreciation - states where we have energy and momentum behind our actions.
How can going against our soul's intended path for us make life more difficult?
-Going against our soul's intended path creates resistance and lack of energy/inspiration. Things become much harder and we may end up exhausted, stressed out, or even fail.
Why is it important to align our internal energy with external currents?
-External currents represent the flow of energy in people, conditions, and situations around us. By aligning internally and externally we can effectively move with different energies instead of fighting against them.
How can we identify when we are out of alignment or flow?
-When out of alignment we feel internal resistance, tension, frustration, feeling stuck or drained. These are signals we need to pause and address misalignments before proceeding.
What is one key thing we can do to get into flow?
-Prioritizing how you feel above all else. Don't take actions until you've addressed negative feelings and are in an aligned state - inspiration/excitement vs resistance/doubt.
Why is fragmentation an obstacle to being in flow?
-When parts of our own consciousness conflict, such as one part wanting something and another part opposing it, it creates tension and circular momentum. Aligning these fragments is key.
What is the benefit of complete presence when taking action?
-Being completely immersed in the present moment focuses all our energy on the activity. This allows our actions to be powered and backed by the universal energy flow.
How can we use synchronicity as a flow marker?
-Moments of synchronicity show us the interconnected flow between our internal state and the outside world working to meet our needs. It confirms being in alignment.
Why is daily introspection and meditation important?
-It allows us to tune into our subtle internal energies to sense when we feel alignment vs misalignment. Most people are too externally focused to notice.
What does it mean to 'follow your joy'?
-Choosing thoughts, words and actions that align with our deepest desires and passions. It means making choices based on what feels good and right to us, leading to a more fulfilled and joyful life.
Outlines
🤔 What is 'being in the flow'?
This opening paragraph defines what 'being in the flow' means - it is when our actions align with the energy current of our soul, resulting in positive emotions like inspiration and joy. Going against this flow causes resistance and negative emotions. An analogy is given of facing upstream against a powerful river current.
😊 How to get in the flow
The second paragraph provides 10 practical tips for getting into the flow: prioritizing feelings over all else, getting clear on desires, integrating fragmented parts of self, being responsive to conditions changing, acting quickly when inspired, practicing presence, following intuitive rightness, seeing synchronicities as a flow signpost, daily meditation, and accepting alignment as a lifelong practice.
🐟 Go with the flow like a fish
The third paragraph uses a fish metaphor to illustrate the importance of flexibility and responsiveness. We are part of a larger organism where all is connected. To align with our own flow and the universe's currents, we must be willing to change course at any moment, rather than rigidly sticking to plans.
😊 More tips for flow
Additional tips in paragraph four include: act immediately on inspiration before momentum is lost, be fully present in each moment to direct energy effectively, become familiar with the feeling of rightness to guide you, and see synchronicities as evidence of being in sync with the flow.
🌊 Ride the never-ending wave
The final paragraph emphasizes that staying in flow is a lifelong practice as everything is always changing. Making alignment with your joy the priority can lead you to discovering your life purpose and highest truths, ultimately enabling you to live your dreams.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡flow
💡alignment
💡desires
💡emotions
💡fragmentation
💡responsiveness
💡inspiration
💡presence
💡synchronicity
💡joy
Highlights
Being in the flow is catch phrase referring to alignment with your soul's energy flow into physical reality.
Going with the soul's flow feels like relief, inspiration, excitement, etc. Going against it feels tense, frustrating, stuck.
Aligning your flow with external currents like weather and relationships enables being in flow with the universe.
Prioritizing how you feel is the most important thing for getting in flow. Take no action unless aligned emotionally.
Know your desires to understand the momentum of your soul's energy flow. The universe often knows your desires better than you.
Contradictory energies within indicate you are not in flow. They create resistance stopping you from moving forward.
To be in flow, you must be willing to completely change course when conditions change to stay aligned internally and externally.
Responding to energy shifts allows you to flow with the larger organism you are part of rather than rigidly sticking to a predetermined course.
Act within 5 seconds when you feel inspiration to catch its wave of energy to completion instead of getting distracted.
Being completely present backs your actions with 10x energy compared to thinking of past/future while acting.
Feeling of rightness is internal yes without contradictory internal no. Keep following this sensation of alignment.
Synchronicities show you are in flow, allowing you to be in the right place and time effortlessly.
Introspection reveals your subtle internal alignment so you can consciously choose flow vs. accidentally being out of it.
Staying in flow with shifts in yourself, others, conditions is lifelong practice requiring constant readjustment like surfing waves.
Follow what brings you joy to stay aligned. Your purpose cannot be separate from your joy.
Living in flow allows discovering your highest truth - that you were meant to live your dreams.
Transcripts
When it comes to success and Happiness nothing is more important than being in the flow
Being in the flow is one of those catch phrases that you hear floating around society
but most people have no idea what the hell that means or
how to be in the flow today, I'm going to clear that up for you completely
To get your mind onboard with this talk I want you to imagine that your soul is like a current of energy water
That is flowing from a higher dimension into the physical dimension
Just like a current of river it has momentum to it as it flows down here into the physical dimension
Your physical self that you call by your name was an essence of thought created by your soul
It is a second point of perspective and it has free will
Because of that free will the you that you called by your name in this life can consciously and more often than that
unconsciously choose to think and say and do things that cause you to go with
Your soul's current or to think and say and do things that cause you to go against that soul current
When we are going with that current it is said that we are in alignment
When we go against that current it is said that we are out of alignment
When we are going with the current we know it because of the way that we feel it feels to us
internally like the sensation of relief
It feels the same as being in a very strong stream of water
Where you're fighting against the current to the point of exhaustion?
And then you let go and you let the current take you
Imagining that this current was taking you in the direction of everything you wanted
This emotionally translates in our bodies as things like inspiration excitement joy passion and appreciation
We then say we are in the flow
When we are going against the current we also know it because of the way that we feel it will feel internally like resistance in
tension
This emotionally translates in our bodies as things like feeling stuck frustrated powerless depressed anxious or other painful emotional states
It can literally be compared to facing upstream against a very powerful
If any of you have done that you know that it ends up exhausting you stressing you out and in some cases drowning you
So let me give you an example
Let's say that your souls in tension before coming to this life on earth was to be a teacher
Now let's say though that you encounter parents growing up who say
You have to do something that can get you respected and the only things that get you respected or jobs that pay a lot of
money
So thinking that thought
Which is against the stream of the current of your own soul?
You will most likely take actions like going to law school
Now passing the bar exam is gonna be 50 times harder for you than it is for say somebody else who's in
alignment with their soul when they're going to school to be a lawyer so
It's gonna be a lot of effort. You're gonna be miserable
it's gonna pull you in the opposite direction of the current of your own stream of energy and
As a result you're gonna feel negative emotion
Being in the flow also relates to things in the external world
Everything in the world essentially has its own current of energy so you're interacting with those other currents all day long
Being in the flow in the world is about aligning your own internal current to the currents that are around you
For example let's say the weather decides to create a hurricane
it's not been possible for you to be in the flow if you continue to push against that and demand for an outdoor wedding to
Take place despite that fact. You would then be fighting against the external current that exists and this always ends very badly
So staying in the flow requires a readjustment, so you can be in alignment with your own flow in the direction of your own desires
while not going against those of others
Relationships are essentially all about this. It's about a person staying in alignment with themself as well as staying in alignment with the other person
Being in the flow which is also referred to as being in the zone when it comes to performing activities
Causes us to enter physiological and physical state where when we are doing something
We're completely present with it instead of divided in any way
There are no contradictory energies interfering with the flow of our focus either in internally or externally
Nothing is preventing us. We feel focused completely energized and in full enjoyment of the process of the activity
It takes almost no effort to do that thing and our productivity goes through the roof
The energy that we extend towards that thing feels good and fulfilling instead of depleting
It's as if doing the thing in and of itself re news you
When we are in the state it is almost like our soul is saying. Yes. This is what I came here for
the most
Successful people in this world have managed to think and say and do things which cause them to be so much so in alignment
that they have the energy the current of their own soul and
the universe at large backing every action that they take
So now that you understand the basic dynamic that is occurring within the state of flow how do you get in the flow?
number one the single most
Important thing you will ever do to get in the flow is to prioritize how you feel above every other thing on earth
Do not take a single
Action until you are in alignment on an emotional level
your emotions will always without fail tell you whether you are in the flow in a state of alignment or not if
You feel any of that resistance
You have to get to a state of relief before you take any action
Otherwise that action will yield undesirable results and you will be working 400 times as hard
for this much outcome I
Am literally telling you this today the most successful people on this planet. This is what they decide to do
I'm gonna give you an example for my own life
When I'm writing one of these asked heal episodes
I refuse to write one unless I really want to if I don't feel the inspiration. I literally won't do it
So what I do is I give myself an entire week
Knowing that on one of those days
I will write the episode if I wake up and I don't want to I will not touch my computer
The same principle applies to my events not just relative to myself
Relative to other people everyone on my team knows this that if there's a lick of resistance
I will stop everything in order to focus on what the issue is and create resolve so that all members of the
Team have their energy flowing in the direction of an event
This is how to pull off an event where there's no contradictory energy is going into the event and that creates instantaneous success
To get a handle on what you desire
desire is what creates the momentum of the stream of energy that you can either turn against or go with and
It works a hundred times better if you're aware of your desire and thus going in the direction of it
But one thing you have to accept is this universe knows what you desire
Often better than you do the more conscious. We are of what we desire the less we interfere with the current of energy
The more that we can understand the universe is actually onboard with our desire
And thus that current of energy the more that we can trust that if something changes, or falls through is actually
Taking us in the direction of our desires instead of against it
So many of us are not living in the flow suddenly because we're too terrified to follow our desires
We don't get on board with them
We may know that we want to be a musician, but we take a job we freaking hate
Anyways, it is impossible to be in the flow if you're not in alignment with your own desires
3 we need to become aware of and integrate our own fragmentation
one of the reasons
It's almost impossible for people in today's world to live in the flow is because their own consciousness has broken into so many different
Parts as if it's not bad enough that we turn against the stream of the current of our own soul
Our own perspective that does the turning against also fragments into several different parts
So the you that you call by your name is not just one individual. It's many and many have contradictory ideas
For example
One part of us wants to be on the stage and other ones to hide
One part of us wants a relationship the other hates people
Noticing contradictory energies whether they come from inside or outside is the best way to identify that you're not currently in the flow
these contradictory energies within us creates a
Horrible condition, which is the opposite of being in the flow? I'm going to give you an analogy
imagine that you're in a boat and you're in a stream of water and
Some people in this boat or paddling upstream some are paddling downstream the boats gonna turn in circles
It's gonna get stuck. It's gonna move forward kind of then. It's gonna go upstream
That's the life that we are living relative to the flow when we have contradictory energies occurring within us
We have to get these contradictory and polarized energies within us to a place where they can align and agree upon a singular
Direction to understand this concept in depth I want you to watch my video titled fragmentation the worldwide disease
For be like a fish in the ocean currents
in reality
All beings in this universe are part of a larger organism, so you can see the universes itself as one organism
And we are a part of that organism all things are connected
Naturally as a result of that truth
responsiveness
To other parts of us is a natural part of this universe but most of us are not very responsive
Most people think they are above the need to be responsive when conditions change. They don't want to change with it
They want to be independent
agents
When we are doing this we're a bit like a fish that has decided upon a course of action so we swim in that direction
And when we encounter a shark because we previously made the plan to go that way we continue swimming
the topic of commitment is something else entirely I want you to take that concept and just put it to the side today because
People who avoid commitment, that's a separate conversation
Today we're going to talk about the people who are so committed to their own way of being that they're not
Responsive to any energies within the universe and that makes it impossible to be in a state of flow
Our number one priority and commitment needs to be to staying in alignment with ourselves
Staying in alignment with the people around us that
Is what will create success for us in this universe?
But this requires flexibility it requires us to be able to change with the tides
To be truly successful you must be able to change your plans at a moment's notice so that you are always
Working with your own internal current with the currents of other people and with the currents of the universe at large
instead of against any these currents
to be in alignment with yourself with other people and with the universe at large you have to be able to stop dead in your
tracks
Reevaluate and completely change course at a moment's notice
This is exalted spontaneity
Now many people in the world get very nervous at this because they know that being spontaneous in this way adds an element of unpredictability
and uncertainty to the equation
But they are actually in unsafety
The safety that we actually do have is
Responsiveness otherwise we are literally that fish swimming in the direction of shark
You are connected to everything in this universe everything is interdependent
And so responding to the shifts in those currents is responding to your own current, so there's actually no contradiction there
We are part of something bigger than ourselves
five act fast on inspiration
This is another one of the major mistakes people make when they are not living in the flow
They take too long to act on inspiration
This is a little bit like a surfer who's sitting in the water and a giant wave comes and he sits there and sits there
And sits there and waits for it to pass then goes you know maybe I should get up and now there's no momentum
You have five seconds
Five seconds when you have an inspiration to take your first action doesn't matter whether it's writing something down or taking some other action
five seconds is what you have to do that and
People who are very successful they become adept at doing that
They get up on the wave as fast as it hits them
And they write it all the way through to the completion of the task instead of allowing themselves to become totally distracted by other things
It's with single focus writing the wave and letting it pull you all the way to the completion of the project
six practice being completely present
When you use your focus to come into your body and into the moment that you're in
You are focusing that very strong stream of energy into your physical
Embodiment this makes it so that every action you take is backed by ten times the energy
This way of doing things is best seen through the analogy of an ass
I want you to imagine an athlete who's completely in the game
He loves what he's doing and so all of the energy is flowing into this moment nothing outside this moment exists
He's completely engaged in it
Now imagine that same athlete, but this time he's stressing on top of acting here in the present
He's stressing about whether he's gonna stay with his wife or not
or imagine an athlete
Who's thinking about whether he's gonna win or lose you can see that that actually Rob's energy from his physical embodiment
And when there's not as much energy flowing into your physical embodiment in the here-and-now where you're completely present all of your actions
Are not backed by Universal energy
And so it will take 10 times the effort to do something that another person backed by Universal energy would feel like
Takes no effort
The same principle applies to relationships
if we are in the room with someone we need to be fully there with them and immersed with them if
We cannot be we need to address any resistance
That's preventing us from doing so so that we can be fully present in this state all
Doing naturally arises as a result of being and the doing is therefore much more powerful and effective
7 become familiar with the sensation the feeling of rightness within your being
Now this is very distinct from the idea of what's right
We can have an idea that something's right when in reality when we're really honest with ourselves
It feels completely freakin wrong now
I know that all of you have watched these movies where it's obvious that someone's making a huge freakin mistake
But they're doing what they think is right my favorite example of this is I'm gonna have to break up with them
We shouldn't be together anymore, and you can tell that internally everything in them is screaming
oh
that person's not in the flow the feeling of rightness is like an internal yes without the
contradiction of an internal no somewhere
It will feel expansive. It will feel like relief it says to us
I don't necessarily know why this thing feels right, but it just does
Keep following that feeling of rightness
8 the road marker or Karen 4 flow is
synchronicity
Now what is synchronicity exactly?
Synchronicity is a meaningful occurrence that
Cannot be explained through cause and effect
You cannot do anything to directly cause synchronicity to happen and yet it does and it does so to meet our needs
it is in these moments that you can see the
interconnectedness between your own flow and the flow of the universe at large
I'll give you an example of a synchronicity. There's so many it's absolutely ridiculous, but here's one. Let's say that somebody
You know is suffering from cancer, and it's stressing you out a lot
And you just so happen to sit on the airplane next to the person whose entire specialty in life is
alternative remedies for solving cancer
Synchronicity often shows up as fortuitous events
notice and follow
Synchronicities they mean you are in the flow flow allows you to be in the right place at the right time
it allows you to feel good and act at the exact right time and to act in alignment with universal timing I
Will warn you once you start living in the flow?
Synchronicities will not be that rare in fact your entire life will be nothing but a series of them
9 meditate daily or do some kind of introspective activity with no distractions whatsoever
so many of us
Do not know what our internal flow is doing whether we're in alignment or not because we are so externally focused
We're caught up in doing we're following our task lists
We're suppressing our emotional state and so the last thing we're doing is coming into alignment with ourselves
This is what meditation and introspective exercises are created for
When you start to tune into this on a regular daily basis these subtle energies within you where you're like wow yeah
I guess I was feeling not so good will feel like freaking tsunamis
It's really it gets to the point when you live in the flow or when people say oh my gosh
That's really subtle you're like. Oh my god. Not subtle at all you're just not used to feeling it
Most of the people in society today are living and taking actions and saying and thinking and doing things that are completely
Out of alignment with themselves and they have no idea
So when they get sick and things like that happened, they go, I don't know what happened
Introspective tools of any kind are the best Arsenal in your bag for coming into alignment with yourself
10 except that getting into the flow is not something that you do and then it's done
It is something that you will be doing for the rest of your life there will never be a day
Where your life won't be about?
Coming into alignment with yourself coming into a lane with yourself coming into a line with other people coming into a limit with universal arms
Coming into alignment with yourself that is literally your lifelong practice
like a current
Everything is constantly in motion in this universe constantly changing constantly mutating
Nothing is static ever
Every moment of the day is an opportunity to be in the flow or out of the flow with yourself and other things
The waves never stop coming desires never stop arising conditions never stopped changing
Self-discovery and increasing awareness never ceases so being in the flow is not something you can ever stop
It's like surfing
Somebody who's a surfer never stops writing ways?
They never stop having to adjust to the currents
But what happens is over time it becomes second nature
They become so incredibly adept of feeling every single one of these currents
That's going on that they become adept to coming into alignment with it and writing it that
Is what your life is going to be like if you commit to being in the flow?
Eleven follow your joy. How you feel matters more than anything else on this earth
Following your joy is the North Star of being in the flow?
This means think thoughts and speak words and take actions in the direction of your personal joy
Your purpose on this earth in this life cannot be separate from your joy is a vibrational
Impossibility because of the way that this time-space reality and life itself was designed
Therefore the way to find your purpose and stay in alignment not just with yourself
But with every current that exists in the external world is to follow your joy
it is worth every risk that you could ever take I
Cannot tell you how?
successful, and how feel-good and how in alignment your life can be if you prioritize being in the
Flow and make an absolute practice of it
Every video that I ever have created or ever will create is designed to help you try to
Come into alignment so that you are in the flow
Now this is the point at which I tell you
By committing to coming into the flow you will discover the highest truth of your physical life
Which is that you were meant to live your dreams?
It's your birthright
Have a good week.
関連動画をさらに表示
Flow State: The Secret to Limitless Human Potential
Know Your Chronotype. It'll Change Your Life.
How to open up the next level of human performance | Steven Kotler | TEDxABQ
How To Enter Flow State In 11 Minutes (Step by Step)
9 Flow Triggers - Do More In 1 Day Than You Normally Do In A Week.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
5.0 / 5 (0 votes)