Trust the flow

Ok, I admit…I’ve fallen for collecting stickers from chocolate bars. I know it’s what kids usually obsess about, but the stickers are really good (animals of the world with real photos of each one.) I even have an album with descriptions, where I stick them all.

And this is just the intro to my story.

I’ve been collecting them with my sister (she’s older than me so that makes her the bigger looser …lol…joking). Within the 3 weeks of collecting we gathered most of the stickers out of 250 (you all can guess how probability makes it harder and harder to get the ones we still don’t have). But that’s how focused we were. Now I only have 42 left to collect and she has 26.
We became so focused that sometimes the very numbers/stickers we wanted would REALLY show up the next day or the day after that. That got us thinking and we did a test. We started marking down the numbers of the ones we talked vigorously about as we flipped through the album.

They ALL came within the next 24 hours. They came in great numbers so that we even had doubles to trade with other collectors (mostly kids, yes, but still…lol)

The logical question arose… if such focus can get us sticker numbers on demand (lol…sort of) then we can basically have the same success with anything we set as our goal. So why is it that we don’t use it????

I guess something as “trivial” as stickers is easier to detach from and just have lots of fun playing the game while transferring to “more serious stuff” like family, work or ourselves gets us all closed up with fear and burdened with expectations of how/when/where/who….

Our conclusion was : The less clamped/cramped we are the faster this “focus” phenomena works. And it ALWAYS works when we are as free and playful and open and trusting as children are. So why not give it a go! :)

It’s not so easy to let go of fears. When panic starts it’s hard to remember that in the end everything has always turned out for the best and that there’s something always looking after me.
I guess that, when you live that 100% trust in this flow you turn into one of those “Mother Theressas”, “Dalai Lama”s kind of people,.... it’s not something we can so easily expect from ourselves… so I won’t… I’ll just hope for it… and give it my best …

I’m feeling much better about this one.

I think it’s because for the past few days I’ve ONLY concentrated on the good and positive stuff, no negative. And…something inside me moved. I think it’s the flow itself. It’s easier to trust the flow when you feel it running through you as well.
You can trust the flow when you ARE the flow.

When you’re still, static, stuck and you simply “don’t know” is hard to feel that flow inside you. Acknowledging the bad but focusing on the good, valuable things in life really helps make that shift.

Cool!

I’m tired of trying to push my life where I think it should be. Maybe now it’s time to let it float to where it needs to be in the first place. I’ll just follow the current.
I strongly believe that 99% of things happen for a reason.
That’s why last year was the way it was – challenging. After all the hardship, in the end it brought some much welcomed insights and grew even more revelations. I just need to let go of all misconceptions and control. That’s where trusting the flow kicks in – reminding myself that all is good, all is how it’s suppose to be, all is just right, help is on the way.