Imagine yourself in a boat on a river. You’re sitting in a boat holding oars in both hands. THE STREAM of the river is moving fast. But instead of going with the stream, YOU’RE PADDLING AGAINST THE STREAM. You’re using all your effort to move forward, you feel tired, it’s hard. And it doesn’t even occur to you that if you just let go of the oars, your boat would easily MOVE WITH THE FLOW…
Well, this is what we so often do when we want to REACH OUR GOALS AND DESIRES. Instead of going with the stream, WE’RE GOING UPSTREAM.
- NOTHING THAT YOU WANT IS UPSTREAM!
The truth is that if we only ALLOWED ourselves to GO WITH THE STREAM, the stream would take us where we want to be without big struggle.
But we SELDOM ALLOW ourselves to go with the stream. We PADDLE UPSTREAM – we push, we stress, we get tired, we say it’s hard, we may even want to give up…
In the same way as you in the boat are either GOING WITH THE STREAM or AGAINST THE STREAM, you’re thinking THOUGHTS that either let you GO WITH THE FLOW or AGAINST THE FLOW.
When you’re thinking UPSTREAM THOUGHTS, the journey towards what you want is HARD. When you’re thinking DOWNSTREAM THOUGHTS, the journey becomes much more EASY and enjoyable.
How do you know if your thoughts are UPSTREAM or DOWNSTREAM?
YOUR EMOTIONS will tell you in every moment if you’re GOING WITH THE FLOW or AGAINST THE FLOW. Yes, you’ve got A GUIDANCE SYSTEM inside of you – YOUR EMOTIONS!
When you FEEL doubt, worry, sadness, impatience, fear, disappointment or confusion, you’re always MOVING AGAINST THE STREAM. When you keep NOTICING that what you want is NOT HERE yet, that it’s still a long way to go – you’re GOING UPSTREAM. When you’re COMPLAINING how hard it is – you’re MOVING AGAINST THE STREAM.
Whenever you WANT something, but you’re NOT FEELING GOOD, you’re GOING UPSTREAM. Here’s the truth: You’re NOT going to get what you want when you’re HEADING UPSTREAM!
You’ve got to LET GO OF THE OARS. You’ve got to get back into THE FLOW.
You’ve got to find back to peace, satisfaction, excitement, joy, gratitude, positive expectation, appreciation. You’ve got to find back to FEELING GOOD!
Whenever you FEEL GOOD, you’re going WITH THE FLOW. You’re in flow with life. You allow yourself to move WITH EASE. You take action and it’s EASY. There’s no fight. There’s NO RESISTANCE.
- EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT IS DOWNSTREAM!
Go with the FLOW! Choose to FEEL GOOD as much as you can, as often a you can.
Yes, stuff can happen. Unplanned obstacles will cross your way. Problems will arise. Challenges will appear. You can’t escape that.
But you CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE the way you’re going to THINK about what ‘s happening. You can ALWAYS CHOOSE THOUGTS that make you FEEL GOOD.
Yes, you can always GET BACK TO THE FLOW whenever you find yourself PADDLING AGAINST THE STREAM.
When you FEEL GOOD, you’re GOING WITH THE FLOW.
Isn’t it amazing?
EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT IS DOWNSTREAM.
Go with the flow!
