FluidityNow celebrates life’s flow and our capacity to flow with it.

The underlying assumption of this site is that we are not born static individuals to occupy spaces in a static universe. We will try to present insightful information and vitalizing tips in an intelligent and compassionate manner to help recognize and dissolve the inertia in our lives.

Flow with us!

Have you ever experienced the state of flow? It’s also known as being in the zone, the magical place where mind and body are in perfect sync and everything happens without unnecessary struggling.

This state is known by many names in many different cultures. For example, samurai used martial arts training and meditation to develop a mind that’s clear like water and untroubled by self-conscious thoughts.

What’s so bad about self-conscious thoughts? Well, it’s the self-conscious thoughts that can disrupt our movement through life and make us think we are unable or unworthy to advance from wherever we may happen to be.

Identity is fluid.

Our most troubling self-conscious thoughts may revolve around the question “Who am I?” We each try to be “good somebodies” and end up donning many roles. And sometimes the roles we choose cause us to believe that other people have to fit into corresponding roles. It can get complicated and frustrating for everyone involved. Especially when those roles become confining or conflicting.

If you are currently in the process of letting go of a role that has become too restrictive you probably know what we mean. If you happen to be experiencing an “identity crisis” at the moment, you certainly know what we mean!

In the end, we all just want to be free, productive, and loving.

Fluidity is freedom!

There’s a zen story about a nun who struggled for freedom for a long time. The more she longed for it, the further it seemed. One night, while carrying water in an old bucket that was bound with bamboo, the bamboo broke and the bottom fell out of the pail.  At that moment she was finally set free. In commemoration she wrote a poem:

In this way and that I tried to save the old pail
Since the bamboo strip was weakening and about to break
Until at last the bottom fell out.
No more water in the pail!
No more moon in the water!

FluidityNow celebrates our struggle to carry water, our attempts to mend our pails, and the transformative moments when the “bottom falls out.”

It celebrates each of us, at all of our stages: where we’re at right now as well as the journey onward.