The Flow State and Cultivating Presence

The cultivation of presence has been the underlying teaching of everything else I have learned through working with plant medicines. The times of deepest connection and the most profound ceremonies have happened when I am able to be fully present with the sensations, thought forms, emotions, or visions that arise and witness the flow of energy in my body and the space, and huge shifts have happened when I am able to apply this presence to my daily life and mundane activities.

This sharing is a follow-up of this blog post: https://www.theheartofrose.com/post/aligning-with-your-truth

When I was writing about receiving messages, insight, and guidance from your higher self and spirit, and aligning with your truth. For me a flow state corresponds strongly to the level of presence I embody at the moment. I've found divine inspiration can only come when fully immersed in the experience of the present moment, and not thinking from the mind about what is coming, what needs to be done, or what happened in the past.

When an action is guided that comes to you in a state of alignment and flow, it is a choice whether to act on it or ignore it.

I have found when I do act on it immediately, it creates the space for me to receive guidance in the next step to take, and so forth.

Personally, if it is something I am unable to practically do in the moment, I write it in my journal in a different color than the rest of my writing.

In times I feel really stuck, stagnant, lost, and don't know what direction to take, I review the things I had written before, act on them, and suddenly the state of flow returns where I receive more guidance.

It is the same when I channel in a ceremonial space, or do a session of energy work. The moment my mind steps in during a session or a ceremony, and tries to analyze what is happening, mentally cognize what needs to be done in that moment, or thinks about the next syllable or tone while singing, the flow of energy or my singing becomes disrupted in that moment and returns when I return to presence.

This state of flow from complete immersion in what you are doing can be accessed in a variety of ways, whether singing, dancing, reading a book, conversing with another person, writing, etc. To be continued...