What’s Blocking Your Flow?

What’s blocking your flow? The flow is simply tuning in to life, opportunities and abundance and allowing your intuition to guide you. 

When you reach “flow state,” you feel calmer, rest easier, and synchronicities seem to happen by “coincidence.” 

If you’ve ever been able to tap into this flow state, you know that it feels like magic. 

And if you then start feeling stuck, you probably sense that something has happened that’s blocking your flow. 

So, what blocks the flow? And how do you get back into it?

4 Things that Block Your Flow

1. The Stress Response: Survival Mode

When you’re chronically over-stressed, without breaks to rest and regulate your nervous system, you will start functioning in survival mode. This is also known as “the grind.” 

It feels like “just getting through” the days, weeks or months (or even years) until you can rest or enjoy life fully. This blocks the flow because your nervous system isn’t feeling safe enough to relax and  enjoy life.

2. Disbelief 

If you don’t believe in the flow, you probably won’t find it. Life tends to give us what we believe. So if you believe life has to be a grind, that will likely be your experience. 

But if you believe that everything is working out for your highest good, and then look for signs and synchronicities, you will find your flow.

3. Over-reliance on logic. Going the path of “should.” 

When you rely only on logic, you don’t leave room for the magic of life. Overly logical decisions are the ones that “look good on paper,” but don’t really feel right in your heart. Overly logical decisions are “shoulds,” rather than what your heart truly desires. And to live in the flow, you have to follow your heart at times instead of logic.

4. Not taking action. 

You have to take action in order to be in the flow. But by action, I mean you have to “act as if.”

“Acting as if” means that you take the actions of full belief that what you truly want is possible. You must act as if and take steps in belief that your ideal is working out, because you will eventually get what you’ve prepared for.

So if you want one thing, but prepare for its opposite, you will get what you’ve prepared for and acted toward, no matter what you say you want. You have to act as if what you want is possible and inevitable.

For example, 

• If you want a new job, you must apply for new jobs until you get the one you want. Vs. stop applying when you don’t get interviews and say “it’s not working,” and give up.

• If you want to write and publish a book, you must write the book with the faith that you will complete it, publish it, and get it into the hands of your ideal reader vs give up when you experience writer’s block. Writers block is just part of the process.

And blocks “in the flow” are just part of the process of life. But to get back in the flow, follow these tips:

• Learn to regulate your nervous system with physical self-regulation that works for your personal nervous system.

• Practice holding the belief that what you really want is possible.

• Learn to tap into your intuition instead of always relying on logic, facts and what looks best on paper.

• Take action towards what you want while holding the belief that you can have it.

If you’d like my help in living a more intuitive life where you create what you really want instead of feeling stuck in situations you don’t love, I’d be happy to help. Schedule a consultation here.