A river always moves forward, setting its course and creating its own path down to the sea. At this place beginning and end all come together.
The life of a river is expressed in its flow, just as your life is a continuous flow of experiences. A river's flow is powerful beyond measure. Even when it runs into obstacles, it finds a way past any resistance.
Just as a river, your life has a constant flow with changing forms. From calm and steady waters, through accelerating rapids and waterfalls.
Think for a moment about the river of your life. What is the current flow of your life's experiences? Is it calm and steady? Maybe some rocks have found their way into your life's river causing backwater and thereby changing the direction and flow of your course. Perhaps you feel pulled down by the undercurrent of a negative experience. Maybe you find yourself enjoying the rapids of a new and exciting venture.
Wherever you are in the river of life, it is important to be fully present in the flow of your current situation. When you are in the rapids, the only thing to do is to be in the rapids. The river will take you there anyway. To be in the flow means to be present and involved; to allow yourself to experience the honest emotion of your current situation.
All too often we deny or dismiss the negative or painful currents in our lives and miss out on the opportunity to grow and to learn. What you resist will persist, and will eventually come to the surface of the river in the form of turbulence or regret.
Sometimes the stream of life may seem to be stronger than you are. You resist and try to swim against the current. If you have ever experienced the adventure of white water rafting you know that when you fall out of the boat when going through a rapid, you can't swim against it. Instead, you follow the stream and the river will bring you along.
And so it goes in life. Once you fully experience the currents of life's river, you will always move forward and the flow will bring you along. It always does.
Go with the flow and align with the positive currents in your life that pull you forward.
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