“Flow”
“Flow” - created August 13th, 2021
THE MANDALA PROJECT - How it came to life
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The Mandala Project: #55
There’s an idea that flow is what we experience when life is moving along with ease, things are going our way and we have a sense of everything working out.
But when you’re truly in flow, you don’t need anything to work out. You’re in a state of alignment and connection with the bigger energies circulating around you. There’s spaciousness and flexibility in your being, and a continued returning to trust in flow as life is shifting and changing.
Flow is what you feel when you’re holding a stable, steady centre while the currents of the universe are swirling around you with infinite possibilities of disruption.
This Mandala was a powerful teacher of how to hold that centre by not losing sight of what’s important.
For starters it drew me to this crazy location to build it. Didn’t really know what I was in for until I was up to my armpits in it (a hallmark of any worthy undertaking). I was struck by an idea to make a little altar of stones and wood that I could set the red leaf on, but it wasn’t working—the strong currents of moving water kept undoing what I was doing, and one by one the pieces would spin out of position and get carried off downstream.
I was getting increasingly frustrated as how-I-wanted-it-to-be was becoming an impossible quest.
But I was committed to the mission, and slowly but surely resistance turned into something wiser: perseverance.
Control became curiosity and magic began to happen. I let go of needing it to be any way and just kept coming up with creative new ways to work with what life was offering up.
And I got that fucker built.
What are you holding on to as if it belongs to you—and what might be created if you were willing to let it all go, to keep releasing each beautiful and unique treasure back in to the moving aliveness it came from before it was yours?
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