The Balance of Flow and Cyclical Planning

I'm going to invite you to be open and curious about allowing yourself to receive new ideas around the way that you live in the flow of your life this year. So I like to call this the balance of flow and cyclical planning. It's been something that I have been thriving for the past couple of years in many different ways. And I'm going to share with you what that looks like and the benefits of allowing yourself to have a softer, more nurturing, feminine flow in your life and more balance, more well being, more presence, more connection, more awareness, more stillness. Consider that if you just allow yourself to practice one or maybe a few of these things, then eventually the practice becomes the experience. You become the experience, and it's no longer work. You allow more ease and flow and grace into your life, and you allow space and time for the things that you love without having to give up anything else. 

Every choice you make, every relationship that you have, whether with people, with food, with money, with your work, whatever it is, you become empowered to create intention from a place of alignment rather than hustle, or from a need to be validated, or from a need to stay busy. Because busyness is really just a distraction from our truth. It distracts us from the things that we need and love most. It keeps us from nourishing our bodies. It keeps us from even maybe the proper exercise and or the balance of rest that we need. It keeps us from deeper connections with our loved ones, with our partners, with our friends, with our business partners, with everybody in our community. 

I'm going to invite you to stay in the energy of letting go. We will get to choose differently moving forward. Be curious about the balance between flow and cyclical planning. So I'm going to share with you what living in flow looks like and what it doesn't look like, what it allows, the benefits of it, and what it feels like. So some of you might be thinking that living in the flow is for people who maybe aren't passionate or maybe don't achieve a lot or aren't successful and I can see where you're coming from. I used to think the same thing as a former perfectionist and overachiever, always trying to prove myself, be validated, be the best at everything, never finish learning. Once I complete one thing, moving onto the next thing, never feeling like I was enough. I didn't even know what flow meant, and I couldn't even imagine what it felt like.

Living in the flow is really the ability to be connected to your inner wisdom through your body, noticing what the needs are of your body through intuitive nourishment. If you're looking for guidance on that, you can check out my online courses. So living in the flow includes listening to your body when it comes to nutrition, nourishing, when it comes to movement, and also when it comes to connecting with others, developing that relationship with your inner wisdom, your intuition, your body wisdom to notice when you're being invited to do something. Are you saying yes because you feel like you have to, or out of guilt or shame? Or are you saying yes because it feels empowered and it feels aligned. If you do say yes, is it like 100% yes? Do you ask yourself the question like, is this in alignment with my values? Is it the right time? Does it have to be now? Does it have to be me? Do you check in with yourself before you commit to things?

So living in the flow looks like checking in with your body, your intuition, to see if it's aligned with your values, your truth. Now, sometimes we can be invited to do things that are going to help us to grow and we immediately feel a little bit of a lean out or discomfort because it's an opportunity to grow. So learning to discern when your yes is from a healthy place or a survivor place is very important. In order to do that, you have to know your own limiting beliefs, your own survivor strategies, your own shadows. If you don't know that I've got tools for that too, you can check out my website, the Transform Limiting Beliefs Workshop. 

Living in the flow looks like listening to your body, listening to your intuition, identifying your survival strategies, that keep you stuck, that keep you in fear, that keep you from moving forward. Doing all of that first creates the sacred space to choose to live in the flow. Living in the flow feels like inner power, inner wisdom. It's not force, it's empowerment. Through the being, through the surrender, through the knowing. The more you practice, the more you become and the more effortless and ease you welcome into your life. If you're somebody who really struggles to let go, if you're an overachiever, you just can't stop working hard. You're addicted to working hard. You're addicted to creation, you're addicted to validation. You're addicted or attached. Attached in any way, to any goal, to any result. Attachment is not in the flow. Attachment is a fixed point. Flow is fluid. 

So what if I told you or invited you to consider that attachment to a goal, a fixed point, is limiting you. It's limiting your possibilities because you only have that one possibility with that fixed point. It's that result. What if what's possible is even more than you can imagine? Think about that for a moment. I see it happen time and time again. With the clients I work with, we work on intentions rather than goals.

Another way to live in the flow is to create intentions rather than goals because intentions are limitless and goals are limited to the goal. The fixed point. The other one is going to be to learn to trust. Living in the flow takes a lot of trust because the opposite of trust is control. And control is an illusion that we believe keeps us safe. We believe it's all about us. We can keep everything safe. We can control the outcome and the truth is that the opposite of that is trust. And stepping into flow means stepping into trust. Trusting those in your life, trusting yourself, trusting that you are held and loved by God or source, and just trusting in the flow of life, trusting in divine timing, trusting just in life. It takes a lot of intention and a lot of strength to come to a place of trust. It takes letting go of attachment, letting go of your identity or role as a mother, a father, a leader, a teacher, a coach. Got to let go of your attachment to trust and understand that not everything that happens is about you and just to trust in your role and everything that does happen.

This is how we can live in the flow and the balance of that. If the flow is the feminine energy, the balance to that we'll call it the masculine energy with a little bit of a feminine twist, is cyclical planning. So it's great to embody all of these ideas on how to live in the flow. But if we don't have any intention or aligned action, then nothing can become of it. In order to create change, we want to implement the energy of intention so that we can continue to attract and live with intention and presence. It's where we live in the balance of what I like to call devotion. Devotion would be like the new word for commitment or discipline.

Devotion comes from the heart, it's a willingness to commit and also to surrender, to surrender to the outcome, letting go of the attachment. So ways that I plan my life cyclically daily, weekly, monthly and annually and I do this in cycles. When you learn about intuitive nourishment, understanding how to eat in season for our energetic constitution. Eating in season, depending on where you are, is just one way that we live cyclically. Just eating the foods that are grown freshly every season you get the most nutrient density and value from those foods. So you'll eat differently in the summer than you will eat in the winter. In the summer, you're going to eat more berries and salads. And in the winter, you might need warmer, denser foods. You might need more soups. You might need more squash, potatoes, complex carbohydrates. You might choose to do some broth, whether vegetable or bone. Broth for some more nutrient density. So choosing to eat seasonally, choosing to move seasonally and when I'm talking about moving seasonally, I'm talking a little bit more about your energy cycles. 

If we're talking about the feminine cycle, your feminine cycle has four phases. Living in cycle with your feminine cycle as it relates to movement as well. If we're in the new moon phase, the menstrual phase of the cycle, that's our time to go within, to rest. If you're in the full moon phase, your ovulation phase, it is the time to work out a little more and you'll probably feel more energy. So really listening to your body's own innate energy.

I'm also talking about the cycles of your life. Maybe you were really into, like, hardcore boot camp ten years ago, and now you're into more of a yoga phase. Yoga nidra. Or maybe you're into high cardio, but just really allowing your body to guide you based on your energy needs and allowing yourself to move in a way that is cyclical and also seasonally. Allowing yourself to swim more laps in the summer. Maybe you feel better running when it's fall and it's just getting a little bit brisk out.

So I'd love to hear what you think. I'd love to hear what you learned, what you think you could apply in your personal and professional life and what you may experience and welcome in if you choose to do this is more energy, more vitality, more healthier relationships, more health and wellbeing, less stress, more abundance, more joy, more freedom. Those are some of the gifts that can come from living with intention and presence and flow. So let me know what you think.

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Jen Mons is an author, speaker, mentor and coach for high achieving purpose driven ready to shift the paradigm of feminine leadership and redefine excellence and wealth through 5 Element Wellth, Prosperity, Journaling and Soul Wisdom Imprinting.