Heroes Not Zombies

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

Unfinished poem. John O’Donohue

When someone makes a decision he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho

Flow – one of the most powerful concepts I know.

Life is flow. A flow of energy and substances. We humans, like all living creatures, are the manifestation of the constant flows of atoms, energies and information.

When we pay attention to the reality of flow, we realise that we are all connected and all constantly changing. It’s harder to put people into separate boxes when you are aware of flow. It’s harder to separate out this present moment from the past and the future once you consider flow.

Machines and mechanisms don’t flow. That’s why they are predictable. Living beings do flow. That’s why they are all unique at every moment you observe them. That’s why they are not predictable.

There’s no place for industrialised, standardised methods in health care because every person is unique, every relationship is unique, every life story is unique and all are constantly flowing, continuously emerging, always in the process of becoming.

That’s why I have “becoming not being” at the top of my blog. To remind us that we are neither fixed nor separate. We are the manifestation of flow.