Sunday, November 15, 2009

Downstream - the ecstasy and rapture of the moment

Downstream - the ecstasy and rapture of the moment

As soon as we intuitively "know" what decision we should take or how to act, while realizing that it was the right moment, we are moving in the active phase of the cycle of carefree Time. This is a timeless space where we live in a perfect balance within themselves and simultaneously connected to the source, the Tao, the Great Mystery, Great Spirit, the universal force. We are "going with the flow". Some athletes use the term "peak". For them, this state of mind in which they can achieve maximum results. It is in this phase, and occurs most real magic.

When you swim with the stream, all for you it seems easy, understandable and accessible. Disappearing all the internal conflicts, struggles, fears and doubts. Your internal harmony, as in a mirror, is reflected in the external world. There have all sorts of "meaningful coincidence" - those which Jung called "synchronicity." And these phenomena are common. You are always in the right place at the right time. Some invisible hands opened all the doors for you as soon as you approach. If you need a man, if he "accidentally" encounters with you on the street. And the empty parking spaces appear at the very moment when you need to leave the car.

You buy it for the first time this newspaper and it all just "accidentally" find the announcement that the work required just such a man as you. It happens differently. You have planned to sell his mansion and go to the local cafe, to drink a cup of coffee (which, in general, is unusual for you). It is in this tiny institution you meet a man who is dreaming about a house like yours, and ready to buy it right away. You are going to buy furniture for questioning and picking up favorite designs in the catalog, call for a firm where you tell what this furniture today fell by half. You start to feel that guardian angels are firmly took your side and extend a helping hand at every step.

Everything that happens during downstream, really like the rapid pace of the mountain river. The project, which you put so much time now, suddenly you have performed with amazing ease. The letter, which you thought with horror a few weeks, the very flies out from under your pen, you're writing it for some ten minutes.

Sometimes, what you start (sometimes reluctantly) to tell a story at night to your child. The plot fairly trivial and tired of you already own, when suddenly everything changes. You if someone is pushing, and you begin to compose a dizzying history, such as if it does not you invented it. You even start to feel that she does not come from you, but "passes" through you. You immediately gets to the exciting world of eternity, where time ceases to exist. Now you're intrigued by the plot of his own tales no less than your baby!

Tennis player, who is at a "peak", sees the ball more than he actually is. At the same time and he would like the ball is moving at slow speeds. At this time an athlete has the opportunity to take a correct decision regarding the strike, which will be advantageous. In the second such athlete is concentrated to the limit. The player, racket, ball - it all blends together and becomes the present poem.
Defeating an opponent is not so important. The main task now is quite different: to achieve excellence in the beauty of movement, compete only with myself, to get maximum enjoyment from the game. It may last only one game, one set, or even you make a single blow, but at this point, your feelings are very close to ecstasy and maximum enthusiasm.