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Finding Your Flow in Life

Embracing your A-Game and T-Game

 "Your heart knows the way, run in that direction" 
- Rumi

It's that moment when your chest feels like it's going to burst or you sit in quiet beauty by a river or in a garden, and feel totally feel at peace with yourself or that warm comfortable moment under your covers at the start or end of the day when you just know that it's all good. You get the sense that you are part of a beautiful world where peace and harmony are always on hand. All of you is at peace and calm.
          In those moments, you are really at peace with yourself, there are no decisions to make. You are totally happy with what life puts in front of you. Things are so clear that there is no need of thinking, that no thought is required to on which options to take, which direction to head. You have time, space and all the clarity you need to live 'your best life'. 
          These are great times you are totally fine with everything. Times when you know everything is going right, you are confident, great opportunities come to you thick and fast. It's a place full of energy, you have great ideas, you're creative and surprise surprise... it's all coming together. I'm sure that you all rewind to the moment it comes. You could call  it luck, well some people do, but you know deep down that it was all going to happen this way. All of these situations are times, when you are at your best, a place that TV commentators often regard to it as your 'A-Game'. When you're playing your A-Game, you just can't lose! Well guess what? You can never lose.
          By this I don't mean that there are no times when you feel down. Sure, there are times when you feel like you are losing; like nothing is going your way, you are totally disappointed with your life, when you feel no value to yourself. That's when the worst of the things happen, when you think it's all gonna horrible and permanently wrong.

"These pains you feel are messengers, listen to them."
- Rumi

Ever thought of your 'elevator button', yes, elevator button, one which you press to elevate yourself to the penthouse, the place where you could see the bigger picture of life. Sunlight and blue skies, clear air, calm and impressive. Alternatively, in the lobby, it's crowded with people, no sunlight, hard to see where you are going. How great would it be to step into an elevator and press the button for the top floor ?
          We all live in the lobby, and the ones who enlightened themselves are the ones who press the elevator button. Everyone have a different elevator button. for some it might be driving downtown on their motorbike, or reading something, or yoga or gardening, anything. When once they start to do it, their elevator begins to rise. We are humans and that means we have good times and the bad. Just like rolling waves in the sea or the sun and the rain in the springtime. We get to experience it all. The good news is that, after the rain, the sunshine returns, after the autumn, spring comes.
          Why is that a good news ? It means that the peace and harmony we look for is only a moment away. Well, here's one thing. No matter how bad times you go through, you would barely notice that it just passes away, simple and smooth and then you come to see that it wasn't that bad enough you thought it could be. And all the stress you put yourself in those situations. Don't our thoughts go ten to a dozen about everything that could happen, should or shouldn't happen. Was it ever warranted ?
          Lord Tennyson said of finding motivation, "I sit down to write everyday at 9:30 and my inspiration arrives at 9:35!"  So, there's something even bigger at play, a superpower we all have to hand, available to us at all times, Julian Freeman call it the 'T-Game'.
          Now, let's take an example, if you were watching tennis on TV, you'd see a player hit the first serve and second serve very differently. In the first serve, he puts all his effort, but if he misses, he gets a second serve where he is under pressure, he serves but in a totally different manner. It's his T-Game; perfect for the situation he is in and there to take him into a more positive place where he can go for the win once again. T for Trust, trust that you're enough - because you're always enough.

"There is a voice that doesn't use words, listen."
- Rumi

Do you know how big that is ?

At all times you have the capability and resources you need. Your intuition doesn't deserts you. Even when you are totally in grip of the circumstances, that seem to be 'rocking your world', you always have your T-game to serve you.
          Like a top professional tennis star, you have your A-game and T-game to serve you all the time. You are a complete player in the game of life. Even when things doesn't seem like they are going well, you have at your disposal the ability to make the right decision, do the right thing and come through it better than you would ever thought possible. Take today. Remember, you are the captain of your own ship, that's unsinkable, and when you know this you can be satisfied that whatever the weather, you've got it covered. Believe in yourself.
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