The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful Coincidence

I have read many books which are directly about or recount examples of synchronicity and this is the one that absolutely resonated with my life experiences. If you cannot figure out why sometimes everything just clicks into place and why sometimes roadblocks show up at every turn AND you are willing to accept responsibility for the way your fears, prejudices, hopes, beliefs, experiences and dreams control the flow of your life, then this is the book for you. This book shows you how to assimilate key principles of self-awareness, self-love, trust, acceptance, gratitude, and responsiblity in very practical ways. If the exercises are done correctly they begin a very intense, honest, and ongoing self-examination of everything you hold dear or fear in this life. If you are ready to take the risk of coming face to face with who you truly are as a person, then buy this book. The benefit is that you become much surer of who you are, clearer on what you want from life and more directed on how you need to accomplish it. This book rates as one of the most valuable books I've ever purchased.March 1, 2011: I am re-reading this book as I have done periodically over the years. I just noticed something today on page 24 that I just wanted to note. There is a partial quote at the bottom of page 24 (softcover) that reads "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' This quote in the book is incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela but is in fact a quote from US author Marianne Williamson. The full quote can be found in Marianne Williamson's book "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (1992)". This small error aside (which can be verified on WikiQuotes) I still rate this book as one of the most valuable I have ever purchased.

I originally bought this e-book format and have purchased several other copies for friends who prefer actual books. It does a wonderful job of explaining synchronicity and how we can increase it in our lives and so step more fully into the Flow. A fascinating concept because - bottom lining it - it means that when we talk to the Universe it answers us, if we know how to listen.

This book was so inspirational to me that I decided to base my massage/yoga business on its principles! As an author myself, I found it easy-to-read and insightful. I am recommending it to all my clients.Yoga for a Broken Heart: A Spiritual Guide to Healing from Break-up, Loss, Death or Divorce

I would recommend this book for those coming to realize that there is a benevolent Universe wanting them to succeed and explore their world.

I purge my bookshelves from time to time but I always keep this one! The Power of Flow explains the seemingly mysterious but powerful energies that bring about change, lessons, and growth. It gives a practical explanation to seeming coincidences. It opened my eyes to a whole new way of relating to the world.

A good read for anyone wanting to understand moments of synchronicity. This book will either be an 'ah ha' or a 'what the heck' depending on how 'deep your plug goes'.

Let me save you from wasting several hours of your life that you will never get back. Here is this whole book in two bullet points:> If you assign meaning to some random event....retroactively....now that event is "synchronicity."> If you manage to retroactively assign meaning to a series of random events....that's "flow"If you get really good at assigning meaning to unrelated random events that occur in your life ..... after the fact...so that you can create a story about how they are actually "related," then you apparently become a "flow master!"This book is 300 pages (Kindle version) of accounts of how people have assigned meaning to some coincidence and then made a subsequent decision based on the meaning that THEY ASSIGNED to the event, and how this is "evidence" that the whole universe is interconnected etc.Here's an example to illustrate (this is not taken directly from the book, but it illustrates the fallacy of the entire premise of this book):- Janie was walking along through the park one day. She was preoccupied with the deteriorating state of her relationship with her boyfriend of 3 years. As she walked along, a dead squirrel suddenly fell from a tree and landed right in front of her. She observed this, and decided that she should end her dying relationship with her boyfriend. A week later, she met Gavin, the man that she has now been happily married to for 10 years! -OK, great. But couldn't THIS have happened just as easily.....- Janie was walking along through the park one day. She was preoccupied with the deteriorating state of her relationship with her boyfriend of 3 years. As she walked along, a dead squirrel suddenly fell from a tree and landed right in front of her. She observed this, and decided that she could not let her relationship die and come crashing to the ground like the squirrel. She decided right then and there to dedicate herself to saving the relationship and immediately went home and asked her boyfriend to see a counselor with her. She has now been happily married to him for 10 years! -Identical "meaningful coincidence" in both cases, but the "meaning" and the resulting outcome based on what the person did in response to experiencing this "meaningful coincidence" are EXACT OPPOSITES in each case.Here's the beauty of the "skill" that these authors claim to teach readers to "master": whatever "meaning" you assign to some random event AFTER THE FACT, or connection you create between totally unrelated things that coincide, you are ALWAYS RIGHT!! So this whole concept must be totally sound!!! Amazing.There's an account of a guy who was purportedly "thinking about breaking plate glass with a hammer" when moments later a "rock hit his windshield and cracked it!!" Amazing evidence of "synchronicity" right? Interview enough people, as these authors have (who I should point out were people who already believe in this stuff), and you can find tons of stories like this.You won't find stories about the guy who was driving along...thinking about how badly he needed to urinate...when all of a sudden a rock hit his windshield...in this book because even though unrelated meaningless events like this happen all the time...in the latter case the guy did not identify this as a "meaningful coincidence" and end up in a "focus group" of people who would then report this to the authors. He could have though...just imagine..... "Dave was driving home having left the office really late. He knew his wife was already angry with him missing the dinner she had specially prepared to celebrate their anniversary. He had left the office in such a hurry that he skipped using the restroom even though he had not made a trip there for several hours. Dave was in excruciating pain. For the first time in his life, he thought his bladder might actually rupture. A few moments later a rock hit his windshield! Dave knew immediately that if he did not stop to relieve himself, his bladder would break open just like his windshield had just broken....so he pulled over at the next service station." Amazing!! Or maybe Dave just really had to pee and then a rock hit his windshield......This book is a perfect example of people who already believe something going out and finding as many examples as they can to confirm what they already believe. It's the exact opposite of science...where you have a theory and then look for ways to test it by causing it to fail, and then if it does not fail, you can confirm it's accurate.If you are already inclined to believe the premise of this book, you will LOVE it!! There are so many examples the authors have collected that you can use to reinforce what you already believe! If you are a person equipped with even a tiny whiff of critical thinking skill, ask yourself: "Is my time valuable at all?" If the answer to that question is "yes," spend it doing nearly anything other than reading this book.

The most insightful book I have ever read! Now I understand the code of the universe so plainly stated, as it has related to my life over the years. Being in the flow is as natural as breathing if you understand it. This book brings a depth of understanding that takes my breath away! READ IT!