How to Nurture Your Flow State: A Message from the Trees

Today, I’m delighted to share a special healing message from the trees. 

The trees want to help you nurture your ability to access your flow state — that delicious place of spaciousness, creativity, and insight.

Flow is all about being present, which nature helps you access so beautifully.

When you’re in flow, you feel unrestricted, abundant and interconnected. 

Amazing things can be accomplished in very little time while experiencing flow.

So, how can you nurture your flow state? 

The trees are inviting you to mindfully connect with dendritic patterns. Dendritic patterns, or branching patterns, surround you and are found throughout your body.

Dendritic patterns are found in trees (both in roots and canopy), rivers, coral, minerals, your nervous system, your circulatory system, certain cellular structures, etc., etc.!

They are everywhere. At all scales. And they are powerful.

Snowflake dendrite in agate

The dendritic pattern enables movement and growth. With astounding effectiveness and efficiency.

It’s an essential pattern for the health of our world and ourselves. 

In fact, dendritic cells are vital to your body’s healthy immune response, and have been under increased study during the pandemic. 

The trees see what you’re experiencing — physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually — and want to support you through connecting with the power of the dendritic pattern. 

Here’s a simple mindfulness practice to nurture your flow:

  • Take a few nice cleansing breaths.
  • Envision your roots of light, branching, extending deep and wide into the earth.
  • Envision your canopy of light, branching, extending high and broad into the sky.
  • Inhale and welcome unrestricted flow of energy coming into your body from both your roots and your canopy simultaneously, meeting at your heart center.
  • Exhale and release energy with ease out from your heart center, down through your roots and up through your canopy simultaneously.
  • Picture the energy flowing throughout your dendritic pattern, unrestricted, allowing both movement and growth. 
  • Repeat with least three rounds of breath.
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet. As seen from space. Image: NASA, public domain.

Open your awareness to the dendritic, branching patterns that surround you in the natural world.

And allow them to remind you of this simple mindfulness practice.

Knowing that you’re also made up of this flowing pattern will amplify your innate ability to nurture your flow!

With deep gratitude to the trees for this beautifully healing message.