It’s been a few months since I’ve blogged here. Not because I haven’t wanted to — but mostly life flows on in some new directions these days and I have not had enough time to sit quietly and gather my thoughts!
This is a good place for me, being in the flow, because so much of my life I have fought that sense of movement. Things “moved on” before I was finished with them, or people flowed out of my life and I didn’t want them to.
Resisting the flow of life didn’t get me much more than a good dose of Panic and Anxiety. Recovering from these has included a process of envisioning my life as a flowing river or stream. That I’m both the water and I am *in* the water. There is a time for things to happen and un-happen, and there is also a sort of timelessness about my life.
Maybe I’m just getting old.
But I find that I am no longer feeling the pinch of time, as if I don’t have enough of it. I feel like some of my days are longer than they’ve ever been!! I am enjoying the weather - even when it is weather that I usually don’t like. I’ve been pretty Panic-free now for a good long time.
I’m still busy - but not filled with busy-ness.
So I guess this is what I mean by being “in the flow.”


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November 12, 2007 at 11:19 am
Summer
I am so looking forward to that time where I am as busy as I want to be. It seems I do pretty good with the anxiety except before or after stressful seasons of the year. When things start to slow down and I think I can finally have a break from running the kids here & there that’s when the anxiety comes in. I need to learn to flow from season to season a little better like you said and not just grind from gear to gear.
November 15, 2007 at 8:17 am
jd
I am really inspired by what you said. I just wish it would stick. The anxiety takes over, and I can’t “change” with the time. People leave my life, and I am stuck. I feel like I can’t move on, and it is debilitating. I am a good person, and if “friends”" don’t see that, then they need to not be a part of my life.
Thanks for the inspiration.