Think about your days and, as a fact of your humanness, how they are structured so as to negate and do all that is possible to not have them appear as one seamless flow of occurrences.

Think about how we humans use time, days, plannings, meetings, beginnings, endings, thoughts, desires, denials, all for the intended purpose of sectionalizing and segmenting our lives into manageable chunks that are more easily digestible and palatable, depending upon our own abilities at the time to consume what occurs in front of us.

I remember many years ago very clearly and routinely experiencing the days of the week as distinctly separate events and individualized days that each had their own flavor, so to speak. I remember a time in my life when Mondays felt so different and uniquely distinct from Fridays, and the weekend Saturdays and Sundays felt palpably different again. It was as if each day was calling for a different relationship to occur with it, depending upon its placement within the week. And, I bought into that perceived calling.

I used to feel somewhat heavy and depressed on Mondays because it was the start of the (work) week here in North America. And I felt elated on Fridays because it was the end of the (work) week and the beginning of the weekend, and the fun of not having to work. Each day of the week felt different and I found myself having a lighter relationship with each day, as the week progressed, and the weekend approached. Monday was the beginning, and the heaviest, and the weekend days were the lightest.

Needless to say, this was not the best way to go about relating to life and the flow of occurrences that were being brought to me at that time.

I know that I'm not alone in this manner of thinking that I had at the time. I've heard, and I imagine we've all heard people at one time or another exclaim "Thank God it's Friday!", right? People are living for the weekend, and in the meantime not seeing the flow of occurrences and being with that flow.

Let me explain more about what I'm particularly meaning about the flow of life.

I experienced several brief occurrences, recently, where the idea of time just stopped. It simply wasn't present. That's not to say that everything stopped for me: just the inner experiencing of this human-derived concept of this thing called 'time'.

What actually occurred these few times was that I found myself waking up and moving around my bedroom so as to get dressed in the a.m. and I clearly felt that it wasn't 'the next day'.

It wasn't 'the morning'.

It wasn't the 'early a.m. after a night of sleep'.

It just was what it was.

That is, another occurrence in the seamless flow of my existence, one that was carried over from the previous 'day' to the current 'day', that I was awakening from.

It was as if time had stopped and I was able to see that the flow of life was just one continuous and seamless flow from daylight to darkness and back to daylight again. It wasn't a segmenting into separation of 'days', it was just a flow of existence throughout the moments that I was awake, asleep, and then awake again. Light was gone, darkness came, sleep arrived, and wakefulness appeared.

I know that this might be sounding rather heady and intellectual, or perhaps even 'out there', to some of you. But, perhaps some of you even have had similar experiences and know what I'm being referential about.

You see, I bring this up to evidence a fact of life that we almost never are aware of. And that fact is that life is just flowing along, like the water in a river, and we're in the river being carried along for the ride.

There isn't a time when we're in a different part of the river that is separate from all the rest of the river. We can be at a different part of the river as it flows endlessly downward then we were at, say, a few moments ago. But that doesn't mean that we're in a different river. Or the river is different. Or that something was different in the river moments ago, compared to what is there now.

It's all one river. It's all the same river. We never leave the river and find ourselves in a different one. We're in the same river, always. It just looks different because we have a different vantage point from the current position we're at, compared to where we priorly were viewing from.

But, we do all that we can to see our current existence in life as being different and sectionalized from all the prior occurrences that happened 'yesterday', and in our past days of existence. That brings the expectation that this is going to continue forward and that makes us think that life events are something that can be stopped, or started, or changed. Or controlled.

And, this brings us the angst that most of us experience as the Mondays inevitably and undauntedly cruise towards the Fridays, or the occurrences in life seem to be keeping us separate from what we want, and what is.

When we're able to see, to experience, to understand, and then to know that life is one seamless occurrence and that we're just going along for the ride, then we're able to live in sync with what comes our way.

We're flowing with life.

The thing is, we have always been flowing with life. We have just been tricked and deceived into thinking that we haven't been, and that we've had some control over 'what is', and 'what was', and 'what will be'. It's all one big hoax.

Now, am I saying that we all sit around like milquetoasts and do nothing with our days because, hey, it's going to do what it's going to do regardless of what I do? No, of course not.

What I'm espousing here is that we understand that life is flowing and we're flowing along with it, whether we want to or not. It's occurring as it is, and the sooner we can allow ourselves to be more closely in sync with what is already happening, the sooner we're going to be able to allow ourselves to relax and be one with what was, what is, and what will be.

This is a gradual understanding, and then a knowing. It's something that if one pays close attention to can become clearer and then through direct experience, known.

There is very little that we actually control in life, with the exception of our reactions to events that occur as we're flowing with life. But, that's a topic for another article.

So, to summarize, what is it that one can take away and beneficially use from the gist of this sharing? Well, one can see that we truly aren't separate from the current moment. We might tell ourselves that we are, but we aren't.

And, because of this fact, we truly are synchronized with what is, and when we allow ourselves to act from that fact we are able to 'go with the flow' of life.

Essentially, what choice do we have? We're already in the river, we're a part of it through the fact that we exist. Doesn't it seem like the prudent thing to do to live and be one with life, as it already is?

Think how your days would be, if you were to live with existence from this fact. You'd be flowing with what is. Not resisting. Not fighting. Not struggling. Not not wanting. Just being. With what is.

Easier said than done? Of course. I know this personally. But, as I shared above, it can be experiential, and then a knowing.

Curious to know for yourself?

I invite you along for the ride. Besides, you probably don't know it but you've already bought your ticket and are in the ride. So, just allow yourself to open your eyes, look around at what is and where you are as you flow along, and then have FUN!

It may be bumpy, but oh, what a ride!

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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(Casey, thank you for flowing with me with this insight, recently.)