Having a blog has been recommended to me by several people. I have decided to take their advice.
The way mind works, there is no direct path to my most profound thoughts, instead, one thought will lead to another in a slowly progressing manor, much the way a tiny stream will meander it’s way around the terrain.
Please keep this in mind as you read this and future blog entries- it may not appear that I know where I am going with a thought, but once again, like the meandering stream, we are both heading toward something bigger, knowing that in order to get there we must get past resistance and over or around obstacles that stand in our way.
After spending most of my years fighting my way upstream, foreseeing obstacles that are not even there, or trying to force a change in life’s current, it is a new and novel approach to simply go with the flow, taking care of where I am today, and waiting until I actually run into an obstacle to find a way to deal with it.
I have discovered that obstacles are fewer when they are not invented, exaggerated, and worried over. These types of obstacles will cause the stream to damn up, where it will eventually become a pool of stagnant water.
6 comments:
I love your analogy of flow...Now I need to flow into my studio and get some paint onto some canvases without worrying about it!
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Powerful words and I love the meandering stream symbolism and the photos just fit wonderfully. I must say after reading your post here, I feel as if I have just been meditating in a retreat. Your words I so personally connect to and the resistance resonates so true to me lately. I hope to be back here often to see what evolves.
Keep flowing!!!!!
Hey J! Oh I do hope you keep up with your blog because I really enjoyed this post.
xoRobyn
Hia Robyn...thanks for stopping by my blog. I plan to become more active with it.
Went to yours...wow! So much to see at one time...I am following it now and hope to find some time to really look at all the awesome creativity I have come to expect from you :-)
Wow, you are a very talented writer and also an artist. I love the word picture of the going with the flow. I too am a lot like that and am trying to learn to go more with the flow instead of being so hard on myself. Did you take the pictures yourself too?
Thanks Lee Ann. Yes the photos are mine- one was taken at a small creek I walk at often- and the other from Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania. It is near my Grandma's house and we went there whenever we went to visit. It is an amazing sight if you are ever in that area.
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