Hi, folks! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. Let me talk to you today about something that people have been curious and have asked about. It's about Flow State, the famous Flow State. What State is this? It's the State of flowing; flowing with what is present, happening here, at this moment.
And there's such a huge demand within Positive Psychology for this State. What was discovered is that athletes, musicians, scientists, or anyone performing an activity, suddenly, they're like touched by a new, psychological state, by a completely unusual mental state and their performance is outstanding.
So, in Positive Psychology it was found that it's possible to experience a completely new and unusual mental state, completely extraordinary, out of common knowledge. And what relation does it have with our point here within our meetings?
Here, we work with you on Spiritual Awakening, on Spiritual Enlightenment, and it's curious to say to you that this Spiritual Enlightenment is you Recognizing yourself in your Being, in your Natural State of Being. And of course, this represents a completely different, new state of mind. And in this new state, there's no sense of a "me" present, of a present identity, something similar to what has already been discovered in this famous Flow State. The word "flow" in English means flowing, being in a state of fluidity, to be in the flow, be flowing.
Then, see what an interesting thing… your Zen State, your State of Consciousness, your Natural State or your Flow State, of flowing, they are the same State. See how simple it is what we are pointing to within these meetings we call Satsang, which is this pointing to Spiritual Awakening, this pointing to You in your Being, which is Enlightenment. It's your Natural Flow State or your Real Flow State. Here, the difference for Positive Psychology is that the intention is to find the state; it's to enter the state. Then, there are several techniques being applied within Psychology for you to get the state.
Here, the point is that whatever state you get, it's intermittent – it comes, it appears, then it disappears. So, this is adopted as something simply normal. And, in fact, all states are like this: they appear then disappear. Then, all this dedication to find a state is because it is known that in this state, the psychic condition, the condition of emotions, feelings, of perception of reality, is completely different, it's something completely new, of a completely extraordinary quality.
The problem that arises when you take the Flow State as a state reached, achieved by a technique, by a planning… is it possible to enter? Yes, but as a state it will also disappear. And here, I want to propose to you your encounter with your Divine Nature, with your Real Nature, with your True Nature. This encounter is the encounter with the Reality of your Being, the encounter with the Reality of Consciousness. This encounter is the encounter with the flow of Life, here and now, as It is.
This encounter, which is nothing but the Realization of your Being present here and now, as Consciousness, is your Natural Flow State, your Natural State of Flowing with Life as It is, here and now.
So, it's not about a state. A state is what appears and disappears. You know that, at some moments, you're in a good mood state, at others you're in a bad mood state; you're in a state of joy, at other times you're in a state of sadness; in a state of enthusiasm; at another moment, of despondency. States are like that. And here, you can also find yourself in a "flow state," because at that moment you're climbing a mountain, or because you're swimming, or because you're playing chess, or because you're playing soccer, or painting a picture. However, that state disappears, and your ordinary state arises, which is nothing more than the state of the egoic mind, with these alternations of joy, sadness, good mood, bad mood, enthusiasm and despondency.
These are egoic states, whereas in that moment of "flow state" you're without the sense of an identity present in the experience, the sense of "me" disappears. However, as it's a state that has appeared, it will disappear.
The beauty of Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening, of the Realization of your Being, is that You in your Being are Consciousness. Consciousness is another word for Being, and that Consciousness is out of time. Therefore, it's not a state that appears because of a practice or technique. It's like it happens with this so-called… quest or search for meditation, because it has already been discovered that meditation also transports you or puts you in a totally different state from the ordinary state of the egoic mind, of this conflicting mind, of this mind at war with itself, this mind in contradiction.
Thus, people keep themselves within this quest or this search for the state of meditation. That's because they take meditation as a state, as a state to be reached. And in fact, they've already discovered that it's a state since when they meditate, they enter that state, but when they stop meditating, meditation disappears; and with the disappearance of meditation, the state also disappears, and they go back to their ordinary state of ego identity, within this duality, as I've said just now: joy and sadness, enthusiasm and despondency, fear and courage, and so on.
But that's not Meditation. Meditation is the contact with your Reality, which is your Being, but in that contact the sense of ego disappears… however, it doesn't disappear as in the experience of a state, as it happens in this so-called "state of meditation" or in this "flow state." The disappearance of this center, in Meditation, is the Acknowledgment that there's no center. The knowledge of this "me," in Meditation, is the Acknowledgment that this "me" isn't real here and now.
That's why I deal with you about what I call the True Meditation, different from what is known as "meditation" (through practices, through techniques, through some mechanism, This being attained through meditation), since Meditation is your Being revealing itself, here now, as the Natural State of Being, that isn't properly a state. It's actually the absence of the egoic state, the absence of the egoic mind, the absence of all states, the absence of the sense of separation, the absence of the sense of duality.
Then, when we refer here to the Flow State, you need to understand that I'm referring to this State as the Real Flow State, of flowing. The Real Flow State is a State of the absence of separation between you and Life, between you and Reality, between you and what's happening here and now.
Thus, what people are looking for is something similar to what you find when you enter a perfumery and they give you a small tape of high absorption paper. They spray a perfume there, and that paper is made in such a way that it doesn't alter that fragrance at all. Then, you only have a sample that you take to your nose, a sample of the perfume, and you perceive the delight of the perfume, you are enchanted by the perfume, you're touched by that fragrance. But you don't have the perfume; you have a sample of it.
So, I've compared the "flow state" and also this state known as "state of meditation" – which is achieved by practices and techniques, in the case of meditation, and also by techniques of activity and immersion in the activity that what you're doing, as it happens and is prescribed for the "flow state" – to simply have in that "flow state," which is a state, or to have in that "state of meditation," which is also a state, a sample. To be touched at that moment, at that instant, by the state is like the smell of perfume on that little absorbent paper strip, but you don't have the perfume. Do you see that?
The Flow State is Real as your State of flowing, this flow, this Natural State of Being Pure Consciousness, Timeless Consciousness, here, now, with Life as It is. This is what I'd call the Real Flow State. This is what I would call the Real State of Meditation.
Here on our channel, I've been talking about it. You need to make this very clear to yourself. Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of your Divine Nature is the appearance of this Natural State, the Reality of your Being revealing itself, the Divine Truth You are here and now, your Real State of Flowing with Life. Now, when we refer to Spiritual Enlightenment, we can't exclude, within this process of the Realization of the Truth about who You are, the work of Kundalini Awakening.
Your body needs a change, a deep psychophysical change, so that this Natural State, that here I'll call now the Real Flow State or True Meditation, establishes itself. You need a change in this organism, in this body-mind, and I've been calling this here "Kundalini Awakening." So, we also have here on our channel a wide playlist about this subject, about Kundalini Awakening.
Then, when we refer to Enlightenment, it is necessary a work to go beyond that false center, that false "me," to the Realization of your Natural State of Being, which is your Real Flow State, which is your Natural State of Real Meditation. This is present because of this work, as a result of this work, which is the Awakening of this Energy called Kundalini. Ok?
This is the subject here on our channel. If this is of interest to you, if you intend to go deeper into this and Realize the Truth You are, which is Love, Peace, Freedom, Happiness, here and now, subscribe to our channel, leave your "like" and let's go deeper into this together. Ok?
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