The optimal experience discovering your frequency

Shot by sutulo (on Pixabay, see photo crédit and links at the end of the post)

First published on November 17, 2019 under the title "2 or 3 things about the flow"

Everyone is looking for it without always knowing that they know it, it is the optimal experience, that of flow. I suggest you to embark on this series of 4 articles on the planet flow.

What, what, what is this!

Another shaman thing, should we sit cross-legged and open our chakras?

Not necessarily ! The optimal experience I'm telling you about, otherwise known as Flow or Zone, can be an intense part of your activity. Often associated with mindfulness, it can take as many forms as there are individuals.

Take a few moments to remember.

Everyone has experienced, as a child, moments of intense concentration on an exciting activity. Do you remember what you were able to focus on without anyone forcing you to?

It was something you couldn't wait to join, which plunged you into a parallel world where everything else disappeared, where you could forget everything, even when to eat, when to come home, maybe even the time to sleep.

I invite you to reflect on this memory to name and explore what you already know.

Imagine that you are looking for a frequency that you like on the radio.

This is the station of your favorite radio show, where you find your host friends and the artists whose voice you know on the tip of your own tongue (yes, they are able to speak in your head with the same voice as in the reality, you may even be able to imitate them !!).

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If you are looking for this frequency, it is because it allows you to escape, to dream, it is because it takes you.

So you turn the fréquency knob ... As long as you're not on the right frequency, you don't hear anything, you don't listen to noises and squeaks, it's just messy waves that don't concern you.

Your station, the one you are looking for, you recognize it from the first fraction of the first millisecond.

The moment I'm talking about is the frequency connection that drives you and that energizes you. Connecting to your own frequency is a moment of well-being and intensity that has a name, flow. In other words, the optimal experience!

And what is this flow for?

The flow is a multiplier of motivation and efficiency.

Just that !!

Continue this exploration to your source of abundance, the strongbox of your own wealth.

Be careful, this is your AliBaba's cave!

Flow is a state of mindfulness, a connection to the present moment in which you are focused on your action, so much so that you forget your surroundings.

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With the state of flow, you achieve what looks a lot like sportsmen's second wind.

Aaahhh yet not very athletic myself, I have sometimes felt the well-being that is achieved when the warm muscles, after the training phase, seem to be carrying you. From this warm-up stage one is able to run for a long time - if it is running, but it is valid for swimming, tennis, skiing, or any sport. . As soon as it is reached, your second breath allows you to continue your action with the feeling of not making an effort.

And even more, to enjoy this moment in a phenomenal well-being!

And more, to run better than ever! !

And more, to progress !!!

The flow, like the second wind, is a moment of productive well-being, a kind of loop that feeds on itself. In the flow, the feeling of harmony, of balance, is total.

There is a multitude of activities that lead to flow, just as there is a multitude of individuals.

Your flow only looks like you,

this frequency which is yours is unique, it belongs only to you.

In addition to sport, some access it through meditation, or yoga. Any artistic field is inherently enveloped in flow, music, song, writing, drawing, painting, the list cannot be exhaustive. Everyone knows this flow at some point without naming it, in different activities.

Shots by Lubos Houska, Dieter HeiBenstein,

Joseph Kebbie, SplitShire

Everyone has been through this kind of moment and therefore remembers it.

This is the ultimate creative moment. If you like to spend hours in your kitchen simmering small dishes, these are probably your flow moments. If you like to read, the images and ideas that are born by association are a moment of understanding and recomposition of the world and your reality.

As flow is the best expression of yourself, it always bears the color of your values, those which deeply determine the person you choose to be.

Your flow is the space where you can express what you really are.

It opens the door to your own inner world and through this intimate connection connects you to your understanding of the world, to your unique way of perceiving it, using it and responding to it.

It contains both your capacity for expression and your capacity for creation. For all these reasons, it is therefore the place where the communication you have with the world around you is most effectively developed, the possibility to say who you are and to take your place.

And quite naturally, it is from this frequency, however you join it, that you build what you want to share with the world of which you are a part.

Now you understand why we talk about the optimal experience!

As far as I'm concerned, I have identified 5 activities over the years that allow me to access my flow. With drawing, writing, reading, photography or video, I inevitably reach my frequency, the one where I connect to everything that surrounds me, inert matter as well as everything that is alive, inside and outside.

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In fact, you become an expert in the areas that connect you to your own frequency. Your appetite for this connection allows you to develop your skills. The best of the best is to professionalize yourself in one of your flow practices, it's a bit like reaching nirvana, your own paradise.

This is what professional athletes, musicians, singers, artists do, and most passionate entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds who have understood that their passion is in fact a vocation, that they do not know do something else. So we say that they "decided to make a living from their passion" ... Yeah, a little simplistic but hey, let's admit ... that's yet another subject, exciting. Anyway, let's come back to the Zone.

Let's stay a while in the process to better understand the benefits of this attainable paradise.

The state of flow juggles the paradox of letting go and control.

In the flow you make full use of your intuition, your own unique link in the world, totally immersed in the present moment. A point in your time, very precise, where you connect to something bigger than yourself, without forgetting that you are part of it. A kind of direct radio broadcast with the Universe, the matter of which you yourself are made and at the same time that which surrounds you. The flow is a perfect moment of Reality, the exact opposite of destructive real, moments of violence or suffering, which are unfortunately the other dark and painful side of the same room.

The state of flow combines a picky focus on one detail, with confidence in the overall result. You are therefore both relaxed, in a state of intense well-being, and both focused and tense as if you were bending your bow to launch your arrow. It's a moment of intensity and effectiveness unlike any other moment of connection, every day of your radio show is different.

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These are the most productive moments of your existence,

Your work takes on a new dimension, it goes further than you,

you feel yourself pushing wings !!

It is during this concentration that you learn the most about your practice, this is the time when you understand it best, when you can progress most effectively. The gesture, the spirit, the action and the reflection, in a state of both relaxation and intensity, are precise and I repeat, extremely effective.

And it is for this reason that without paradoxes, the flow allows you to rest your mind

Flow is a tool

And like all tools, you can learn to use them.

So tell me, what's your favorite flow activity?

Next week, I'll tell you about the conditions that allow you to access your flow, and share with you my own tips for accessing it. Waiting …..

Shot by S.Hermann&F.Richter

I wish you beautiful connections

Take care !

myriam

PS I used to end my posts the same way long before this talk turned into a commonness. I don’t see why I’ll change my ways because of a… a… C'mon chao!

Crédit photos Pixabay (in the order of the text)

Couverture Image by sutulo, Donna Rodgers , StockSnap, Lubos Houska, Dieter Heißenstein , SplitShire , Joseph Kebbie, StockSnap, tookapic, S. Hermann & F. Richter