FLOW
The Goal of FLOW is the challenge of learning how to Navigate & Adapt to the flow of life, rather than strain to sustain control over its speed and direction.
It's about knowing how+when to relax/surrender to forces you can't control and work within that through using the other Goals, while allowing for moments of rest and processing when needed.
As such, Flow is often wrought with anxiety, stress, control issues and panic. It is a navigation in self between feeling like "I WILL get there." and "No matter how hard I try..."
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NEGATIVE SPECTRUM
-Inertia/Stagnation ensues when you feel life is at a stand-still and you are running-in-place against the flow of events, stuck in a Momentum that never changes.
So you feel you're obligated to mundane routines and doing "a whole lot of nothing"- or you're feeling pulled & pushed in directions that you can’t control and resent to negotiate.
This is always prompted by an internal extreme of DIVISION, where you, life and others are causing discordant divides in your will between following one path/choice/state or the other- or you have to constantly divide yourself to tend to all of life's actions and reactions.
Which then leads into an external extreme of DISTANCE, as you either distance yourself from anyone and everything that disrupts and obstructs your freedom to choose- or your sense of success+accomplishment in your goals and relationships seems to distance from you, and it suddenly feels futile to even fulfill.
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You move in extremes between letting everyone/thing else be the navigator while you "hold on" or shut down into paralysis- constantly crashing into experiences and drowning in them; and then taking complete control over the steering, with everyone else "hanging on" or left behind to your choices.
So you feel like a fish trying to swim against the current, or a boat being rocked endlessly by the water.
SLIDING
Flow can use any other Goal to Struggle against Inertia or Bring Peace/Freedom.
Re-Evaluation would withdraw & simplify to the key struggles- reducing your life, activity and focus in order to bring clarity to what you want/need to feel more free.
Growth would feel confused and overwhelmed, turning your struggles of inertia into opportunities for meaningful growth that can free you.
Discrimination would want to make better+more refined choices- rejecting options & directions until there is a sense of resonance to some means of bringing freedom.
Acceptance would ingratiate you to your inertia, or ingratiate others to accept your momentum- eventually removing these pressures so that you can let yourself+others truly accept an experience because one means it & wants to, not because one can/has to.
Submission would look at what your struggles are actively amplifying & realize where you're exploiting others/being exploited into subservience- redirecting yourself to more replenishing directions+devotions where you can give & receive more freely.
Dominance would take charge, dictating direction until turning your challenges into opportunities for leadership that can return you back to a space of peace.
POSITIVE SPECTRUM
A shift into +Freedom means you navigate the experiences unfolding in your life; riding the actions and reactions of yourself and others like a wave- as effortlessly as you can manage given your circumstances.
You Surrender to your Inertia then, as you ask where you've limited your Permission to Be/Do/Feel, so you can find or create ways that you can be/do/feel more freely. Even if there are limitations in place that narrow what or how you can choose- you now have some footing to base yourself on.
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This pulls you into a sense of DIRECTION, because suddenly you're moving forward again, looking forward to something and sharing this aspiring sensation within your relationships.
Which then shifts into an external sense of CONTRIBUTION, as now you realize you can make small changes and efforts in your life that build up over time, creating a cumulative effect; gaining a greater capacity to more confidently navigate any challenges. Or you become open- even if begrudgingly- to any new paths that may clearly present themselves or add to your life as an adventure or opportunity.
While these extremes certainly bring more satisfaction, they don't quite realize that flowing does not equate moving through life with no impositions, complete peace or a lack of structure.
Freedom adapts to & navigates the tides of life by trusting, choosing and creating the path of least resistance- able to change course, aim differently, re-calibrate etc. with great fluidity, flexibility and guidance.
Sometimes this means surrendering to what you can't control, and allowing for rest+relaxation- and other times this means taking control, upholding a vision and pushing an agenda. Freedom knows both are progress, and can differentiate between what can and can't be controlled, while still making the most of that.