Posts from — October 2008

 Have you ever sat on a beach and watched surfers frolicking in the waves?

The effortless beauty of surfers mesmerizes me and I can watch them for hours.

Watching surfers will teach you a huge amount about “being in the flow of life” and about how to manifest your dreams and goals effortlessly (or at least make it look effortless from the shoreline.)

“Go with the flow, dude,” is typical surfer lingo and may be construed to be a little silly or naïve but it is the KEY truth in living an effortless life.

Life works in cycles and patterns and what connects one event to the next in these cycles is energy FLOW. Consider the seasons; night and day; birth and death – these are cycles.  Consider the patterns in nature, your fingerprint, in your body, in your behaviour, in music, in the universe – these beautiful patterns that mathematics is able to eloquently capture as numbers.

And between these cycles and patterns there is flow.  Flow is the way that energy moves between these cycles and patterns.

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Joseph Campbell an incredible American mystic said that the secret to life was to “follow your bliss.”  While I completely agree with him, I find that often people are not sure what their bliss is and so my advice as a Fairy Godmother is to “follow what fascinates you!”

If you watch children as they go about their lives, you will see that they are not only incredibly present but that they flit from fascination to fascination.  They can be fascinated one minute with the jingling and taste of keys and the next they are squelching their toes into the earth and sniffing a big flower.

It is this following of fascination that allows us to learn about what we like and don’t like when we are little, but as we experience the metamorphosis from childhood into adulthood, we often forget to continue this practice.  We get stuck in the mundane and day-to-day hum drum of life and then complain when our lives seem to lack sparkle and feel really quite boring.

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