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Rhythm of Life: 'Spiritual Tides,'
The Ebb and Flow of Life

Here's an article I wrote a few years back inspired by Elizabeth Towne's writings on work and play: Spiritual Tides as she calls them...life is a continuous ebb and flow, like the seasons, like the ocean's waves.

When we learn to "ride" with them, our life becomes easier, with less resistance. In today's words: Go with the flow!

Rhythm of Life Article

Are you overwhelmed with so many activities you don't know where to start? Are you always in a hurry but seem to get nowhere? Do you find yourself in a state of perpetual over-drive? Do you constantly feel tired?

Perhaps it's time to take inventory of your life.

But how?

Here is an excerpt from an incredibly insightful book written in the early 1900's by an author who has very wise words about this modern day problem. Apparently this problem is not exclusive of our times.

This author makes reference to life being like the ocean's waves; incoming waves and out flowing waves...

"Through all creation runs the same ebb and flow, ebb and flow, which you can see in the ocean. It is the life-pulse of creation. And there is in it pulse - the long ebb and flow of spring and fall, the short ebb and flow of your own [body]. Just so there are long spiritual spring-flows and fall-ebbs, and there are the short daily ones you can easily feel.

"And there are infinitely smaller ones of which you are not yet conscious, but to which you subconsciously respond. The spiritual tides of the One-Power flow in all veins. We feel them, and respond, but we as yet only dimly understand.

"But where we cannot understand we may trust. As I wandered in the wilderness of 'ups and downs', as I descended from Transfiguration Mounts to deep Valleys of Shadows, and then ascended again, and yet was never quite lost, I learned more and more how to trust; until in time I came to KNOW that 'all things work together for good' to those who work with them."

I truly believe the secret to a fulfilling life is to find your rhythm and balance. For this, one of the things you must practice is listening to what your body tells you. If you're tired, then you may need to take time-out to unwind: read a book, meditate, take an hour off from your hectic schedule and do something relaxing, like taking a bubble bath or a short nap.

When you see your life in synchronicity with nature then it is much easier to go with the ebb and flow of everyday living.

I hope this article: Rhythm of Life helps you to come more in contact with your natural inner rhythm and take the time to smell the roses!

To your growing success!

Romy and Mrs. Towne ;.), author of How to Grow Success

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