Going with the Flow Guided Meditation
Find a comfortable space for you to do your meditation. Sit upright, although allow your head, neck, and shoulders to relax and be supported.
Once you are settled in your seat, take your first inhale. Breathe in the space, your purpose for doing the practice, and maybe set an intention of what you want to get out of the session. Then exhale and close your eyes.
Allow yourself to start to see how long you can inhale for, and then exhale for. By concentrating on your breath, you will reach a state of rest faster, clear of any distracting curiosities of the mind.
Keep breathing.
Once you feel a rhythm with your breath, expand the inhale, and then the exhales even more. Try also to allow your exhales to last longer than your inhales.
And keep breathing.
Maybe as you start to feel your body going into a state of unwinding and tranquility, pay attention to the parts of your body that are tense or uncomfortable.
Send your breath to these areas of tenseness to open them up and oxygenate them.
Once you feel like your body is letting go of the tension, return to the long inhales and exhales that make up a sort of rhythm, and allow this rhythm to calm you.
This rhythm of breath that you have created should fill you with ease.
With this, start to think of the things that come easy to you in life. The things that make you feel like you are in a flow.
Are these things easy for you to do because you are in a flow?
Does playing a sport make you feel like you are in the flow?
Is it painting?
Hanging out with friends?
Spending time with family?
Reading a book?
Doing a certain activity?
What does it mean to you to be in a flow?
The Law of Least Effort says that there is a flow to everything that happens in the universe.
This means that if we can acknowledge things for what they are, we find an intention, reason, and purpose to everything.
When we resist this inherent flow, life becomes more difficult for us. Although, if we allow ourselves to follow the universal current of energy, we effortlessly follow life’s flow easily.
Ultimately what this means is that if we allow what is meant to be, be, the right actions will follow.
As you continue your rhythm of breath, do you feel more in the flow?
During the present time, life has slowed down.
Do things feel more in a flow because your life is less hectic?
How can you interpret this ease back into your life when your schedule becomes hectic again?
How can you feel comfortable with letting go of so much control and allowing yourself to join the flow?
What makes you feel like you are in the flow and how can you interpret that mindset into your everyday life?
Take these moments of your effortless rhythmic breath to show you what being in the flow feels like.
And continue to breathe.
Maybe reflect on how you can live more in the flow rather than living with resistance?
Allow yourself to be filled up with this purpose, and allow your breath to set this intention to follow the natural flow of energy.
Then bring your breath back to those long deep inhalations and longer exhalations.
When focusing on this cycle of breath, allow it to be the only thing you focus on.
Go back to that quiet state of mind. Stay in this moment for a little. Allow the quietness to ruminate within you and center your mind.
Then once again, allow some thoughts, daydreams, or curiosities to reenter your mind. Open your eyes and then begin trying to live in the flow.
