flow comes from your place of stillness

flow doesn’t come from busy-ness and activity.

flow comes from your place of stillness and spaciousness.

because if “flow” is essentially the movement of creative energy through the vessel that is you, then the vessel itself needs to be nourished, balanced, and still — in order to hold space for inspired movement that is flow.

if everything is the opposition of diametrically opposed energies: yin and yang, feminine and masculine, silence and sound, presence and absence — then one thing can only be understood, grasped, and held — by being with its opposite.

what is the opposite of flow? it’s not rapidly moving through to-do lists and “getting stuff done.”

it’s the intention to make space. where your psyche is like a bright, clean room by the sea, where the windows are wide open and the sea breezes moves through, and the curtains are blowing. there’s nothing in this room, except me, sitting on a cushion in the middle of the room.

the mysterious energy that comes to visit me there, and fill the room with its intense colors and thunderstorms and blinding rays of sun — that energy is flow. that is how my psyche wants to be.