Jun 25, 2020
Have you ever processed how you tend to deal with conflict and change? Do you react with fight, flight, freeze, or flow? Our caller Danielle inspired today’s episode with her experience and inquiry. Resilience and peace are best achieved in a state of flow. Let’s explore how we can achieve flow in a world where we’re constantly surrounded by the uncontrollable.
Definitions:
- Fight – resistance and the desire to preserve the status quo
- Flight – avoidance so as not to face challenge or adversity
- Freeze – paralysis; not knowing how to react or respond
- Flow – openness and adaptation to the unexpected
Episode highlights:
- No reaction is wrong. It’s natural to feel all reactions of fight, flight, freeze, and flow.
- The desire to control and defensiveness can be easily sparked when resisting unwanted change
- Freezing can occur in times of overwhelm. The caution is not to ignore the challenges you face.
- Solutions often are found in the gray area, somewhere between the best & worse case scenarios
- Start by asking yourself, what’s the outcome I want to achieve? Then shift into possible options.
- The danger of flight is falling into a pattern of avoidance which manifests into bigger issues later
- Neutral thinking is a great way to maintain a calm, collected approach to the uncontrollable
- The ability of flow comes with maturity, intentionality, experience, and practice
- Flowing starts with reflection and directing your energy inward to what you can control
- Practices that may help with flow: prayer, exercise, meditation, and mindfulness
- Thoughts are things and thoughts can propel outcomes, so direct your thoughts accordingly
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References:
- Change Your Mind to Attract Love, Abundance and Wealth with Marisa Peer (podcast episode)
- It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad (book)
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy (book)
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