Going with the Flow
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Going with the Flow is your guide for creating harmony in your life by bringing yourself into alignment with the forces of Nature that govern the world. It’s good to know about them, because you can no more escape their influence than a swimmer in the ocean can avoid getting wet. Going with the flow is knowing that a vast river of energy flows through life and we are drawn along with it. Learning to swim in the direction that the energy is flowing is the key to creating a happier, more harmonious life for yourself and the people you care about. It is really up to us though, the river does not care if you swim with it or against it.
Aligning your efforts with the larger flow gives you intuitive insight into the deeper nature of the world. These insights would otherwise have been obscured by the stresses and strains of the everyday "unexamined" life that so many of us lead, preoccupied as we are with the world and everything going on in it.
This little book may be modest in size, but it is large with underlying meaning and the potential to make your world a better place be alive in. It teaches you how to raise your awareness of the patterns of Nature that can be seen and felt in the world around you, and to sense it with impact, and to contemplate it all without judgement.
What is stopping us from living this way? Perhaps it is the tendency in us all to settle into established ways of thinking that your social group believes is right. Venturing outside of these conventional ways of thinking is to risk being ridiculed by the group. Are you brave enough to think for yourself, and perhaps resist the need to tell everyone your newfound wisdom?
Going with the flow is like a woodworker understanding that he must work with the grain, not across it. It is to understand that everything in the world is subject to change; often gradual, sometimes sudden. We need to know how to move with the changes and not resist them, not be too attached to anything, since nothing lasts forever.
Our willingness to put ourselves into alignment with the flow of Nature puts us into harmony with it, and gives us the momentum of those larger evolutionary forces. We become the kind of person that others might describe as ‘a force of nature’.
Come along on the journey into the Flow. It is the key to opening the door to a clearer, brighter, more expansive reality in which you come to see yourself not as "a drop in the ocean, but the whole ocean, in a drop", as the poet Rumi said.
David Tuffley
David Tuffley (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia.David writes on a broad range of interests; from Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychology, Ancient and Modern History, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Architectural History, Environments and Ecosystems.
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Going with the Flow - David Tuffley
Going with the Flow
David Tuffley
Altiora Publications © Copyright 2016 David Tuffley
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves – Lao Tzu
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About the Author: David Tuffley PhD is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia. David is passionate about helping people to grow into their full potential.
Disclaimer: This book has been written with all due care and attention, giving guidance on how to live a more harmonious life. If followed it has the potential to help you be live a more harmonious life. By itself the book cannot guarantee success. That will depend on factors beyond the control of the author and the publisher.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
INTRODUCTION
THE LAWS OF NATURE
YOU DO NOT HAVE A LIFE, LIFE HAS YOU
THE CREATIVE FORCE
RECOGNIZING THE CYCLES
BEING PROACTIVE NOT REACTIVE
RAISING YOUR AWARENESS
BEING IMPARTIAL
BEING NON-COMPETITIVE
BEING MODERATE
BEING RATIONAL ABOUT YOUR INSTINCTS
AVOIDING EXTREMES
AVOIDING THE DISEASE
THINKING MORE CLEARLY
MANAGING YOUR EXPECTATIONS
MANAGING YOUR PRECONCEIVED IDEAS
CHANGING INTO OWN OPPOSITE
RESTING ON YOUR LAURELS
DWELLING IN THE MIDDLE GROUND
OBSERVING THE PATTERNS OF NATURE
RESISTING GROUP-THINK
IMPROVING GRADUALLY
NEEDING LESS
BEING ADAPTABLE
INFLUENCING PEOPLE
SETTING THE STANDARD
INFLUENCING WITH SUBTLETY
MAINTAINING SIMPLICITY
GENERATING GRAVITAS
UNITING TALENT
GUIDING NOT RULING
AVOIDING UNDUE INTERFERENCE
ACTING WITH HUMILITY
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ONE LAST THING
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
Living in harmony with the world is one of the great secrets of a happy and fulfilling life, and one that eludes many among the pressures of modern life.
But it is not such a secret after all. It is knowledge that has been readily available if you know where to look. Books like the ancient Chinese classic the Tao te Ching is one such source. This ebook is based on Lao Tzu’s enduring classic, its lessons as true today as when they were written 3,500 years ago.
Simple, effective, life affirming; there is no downside to learning how to go with the flow.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
Going with the Flow is your guide for bringing yourself into alignment with the larger laws of Nature that governs the world and everything in it. You can