The term “the vortex” first leaped to my attention several years ago when I was interviewing Stuart Wilde during a radio show. Then it again forced itself into my awareness last year when I was teaching at a retreat with Denise Linn, when Denise led the group into an “energy vortex” as part of an exercise. Then, last night, as I co-hosted a two-hour online seminar with Esther and Jerry Hicks, the vortex was again forcing itself to my attention.
This is the second time I’ve hosted a program with Esther and Jerry, while Esther brings forward Abraham (a non-physical group consciousness). We sit in a studio for two hours with headphones, mics, and lots of blinking radio lights while Esther answers callers’ questions. It’s a privileged position to sit only a foot away while this occurs, and watch the truly joyful interaction between Esther, Jerry, and Abraham.
I first watched Esther from a similarly close viewpoint more than twenty years ago, in the 1980s, when a small group of us gathered in a hotel courtyard to watch Esther bring forward Abraham, when Abraham was far from well-known. My mother and I came home with a dozen hand-copied cassette tapes of Abraham’s teachings. And now, here I am again, once more learning from them, through absolutely no effort on my part to have arranged it. I’ve often wondered at the complexity and foresight of my Flow, that it has maneuvered me into such a position.
It turns out that I’m not the only one who noticed the connection between the vortex and the Flow last night. Here is an email from my inbox today:
Hi Summer,
First , thank you for continuing to share Flowdreaming, both the technique and the philosophy have helped bring a sense of peace and control in my life.
I have your book and pre-ordered you new one that is coming out. I have several CD’s and was part of one of the Flowdreaming classes conducted by you and your mom. I am trying to learn as much as I can about life and my place in it.
I have a couple of questions. I was part of the Abraham-Hicks online seminar last night and I am trying to connect Flowdreaming with the material that they teach. Is being in the Vortex the same as being in the Flow?
If trying to manifest something, do you get into the Vortex or the Flow and then put your intention out there, or do you just enjoy being in the Vortex or Flow without forcing something?
I remember a class in which you were talking about things that haven’t manifested. I seem to remember you saying that we are living in a physical world with the limitations of the physical, and some things will not be manifested either because of the laws of nature, or it is not in our best interest, or because we have come to the earth with certain conditions already set up. Yet, as I listened last night, it seemed anything, regardless, could be manifested , if you stay in the vortex as much as possible–including the girl who was paralyzed being able to walk again.
Sincerely,
Dianne ( in Ohio )
Dianne, when Abraham described the vortex last night, I experienced a dawning revelation that what has become Abraham’s new way of phrasing their teachings is eerily similar to what I understand as the Flow. We both call it state of being in which you are in perfect vibrational alignment with your deeper self and all of life’s energies, and when in this state, everything you feel there is drawn to you as life rushes to fulfill your desires by coordinating all the elements needed for your desire to fruit into existence. In fact, I copied down a few lines that struck a nerver, verbatim from Abraham, while sitting with Esther during the live broadcast:
“The vortex is where all cooperative components are being summoned…the vortex is where you rendezvous with all cooperative components.”
Vortex/Flow: they do seem identical in their purpose and makeup. And interestingly, while I’ve always referred to the Flow as a “place” or state of being, the vortex also seems to evoke this idea. Further, like Abraham implies, emotion is the language of the Flow, or the vortex, and by inscribing this place with your emotional desires, you write the script for your future creation. So when in my Flow, I do generate the feeling (or pre-action, as I call it) of the perfect completion of my desire-the perfect, living, present expression of my desire.
When I teach Flowdreaming, I add in the component of guided daydreaming to this experience of Flow and emotion, as this seems to fulfill a basic need in us to keep our minds occupied and engaged with imagery and language. This need is written in to the way our minds are wired, and this tendency of ours to daydream or fantasize serves a higher purpose as the easiest path to lead us into the Flow. The three elements (Flow, emotion, daydreaming) seem to create a perfect trinity for most people that leads them into this state. When I teach my retreat this summer, we will practice each of these components until they become second nature.
Like you, I listened with great interest as Esther spoke with the young paraplegic and gave her advice on how to return to well-being. And yes, I do recall speaking and writing about how some things just aren’t in your Flow. In my new book, I devote a whole chapter to telling people why they simply can’t sprout wings and fly, or grow a third kidney, or why certain life experiences are simply highly unlikely to manifest. I do still hold the understanding that we come here with certain restrictions-I call them “limitations”-that help create the template for our experience. Our limitations are partially what help each of us to create a unique life, and have experiences unlike anyone else to bring back to Source.
In the case of this young paraplegic, I fully believe that nerve damage can and will be understood as an easily changed condition in our future. However, I’ve also sensed in my Flow that although many health conditions can be eased or cured through belief, it doesn’t mean they will be.
Most people have trouble losing ten pounds-how can you ask them to cure their own cancer, for instance? When told to do this, people “lock up” with fear and lack of faith. Then they feel guilt for being unable to cure themselves, and on and on down a road of fear, worry, and self-recrimination about their “imperfect” spirituality. They blame themselves for creating the disease, then blame themselves for not being able to uncreate it. How horribly unfair.
This is why I’m cautious about telling anyone to use their Flow, exclusively, to treat any health condition. I always advocate a balance of traditional medical and alternative therapies, and that a person use their Flow to bring them exactly the therapies they need, right now, at their level of awareness in this world, to effectively reverse their disease in the easiest, most healthful way. No guilt. No blame. No feelings of inadequacy. And as I think Abraham would state, this is also in alignment with what one feels in the vortex-unrelenting well-being and optimism, which will then find its own way into creating your most perfect health.
I hope this answers your questions, Dianne.
Stay in your Flow!
Summer
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