What Is The One Flow
And Why It's This Publication's Namesake
We’ve all had the experience, that feeling when things are flowing. You’re working on something — writing, painting, cooking, building something, eating with friends and family, having a conversation — and time flies, or even seems to disappear.
That’s when you’re in your life flow and it’s effortless. Obstacles aren’t there. Later on, you’re back to being stuck. Doubts may arise. You feel you have to “make it happen,” forcing your will on something because you fear it won’t go otherwise.
That gap between flowing and being stuck is what this publication is about.
WHY “THE ONE FLOW?”
There’s a mantra we use in kundalini yoga called The Mul Mantra. The first three words are: Ek Ong Kar. The Mul Mantra is the root mantra — the foundation everything is built on, the way a root solidly holds up a tree.
Ek means One. Ong means creative consciousness, constantly creating. Kar means moving, flowing.
One creative consciousness, always creating, always flowing— The One Flow.
Every coin has two sides — heads and tails. Out in the world, we live entirely in that two-sided view. Love and hate. Up and down. Stuck and flowing. We constantly take sides, we get all polarized, we forget the source of it all, that it’s come from the one creative flow.
Take that coin between your fingers and look at it on its edge. It’s just one coin. It’s always been one coin. It has two sides, sure, but the underlying truth is that it’s one coin. Everything out there in nature, all creation is coming from The One Flow.
When you can live in that — even for a moment — you stop fighting everything, you stop locking into one side, and instead you start moving with life, with the flow. You can then take everything as a blessing— because we know it’s all coming from the one. When you accept it all as The One Flow, with gratitude, even the obstacles and challenges can become a blessing. YOU transform everything back into a flow.
The yogis know this as the neutral mind. The neutral mind is where the flow of your creative infinity comes from. And it’s available to you far more often than you’d think — but it takes practice, not just thinking about it.
THE PRACTICE
You can’t get there by thinking about it — you can’t think your way into flow by reading about flow. Flow is your life flow. It’s your energy flowing. If you could get there by reading books or thinking, everybody would already be in a constant state of flow.
The truth is, you have to change the patterns of your mind, and move the energy. You have to energetically move to a place where you’re in the flow. You get there through practice, by creating promoting habits, and specifically through the tools that Kundalini Yoga has refined for thousands of years:
Sound. Mantra isn’t some cute ritual from the east. It’s pure science. Sound is energy and sound energy can move your mind— the vibration itself works on the nervous system, through resonance. It interrupts the mental loop you’re stuck in and gives the mind somewhere else to go. Mantra allows you to change the channel. To actually move to a new state of mind.
Breath. Deliberately regulating the breath through specific breathing patterns changes your state directly and fast — it creates release and relaxation. Just like sound, measured breath also allows you change the channel to calm, alert, focus which a state of flow requires.
Movement. Sequences of angular postures move the creative energy through the body. This allows for everything to expand— your whole energy field. A lot of what keeps us blocked is tension we’re carrying and don’t know how to release. Physical flow helps move the mental flow.
Meditation. Meditation is what trains the mind. Over time, the practice can allow you to find the neutral mind at will, instead of stumbling into flow once in a while and hoping it returns. Meditation is like doing push-ups for the mind. You build strength of mind. You can hold focus. You can discipline yourself to sit down and create the flow instead of thinking and worrying about why it’s not happening.
These all work together as one practice. Together they create a synergy and a powerful energy that can move things fast. Done consistently, they build a habit — the habit of being able to get into flow when you choose to, not just when the stars align.
There’s always going to be resistance, maybe even doubt, but with practice you can be stronger than anything that would stop you.
TAMING THE MIND TO GET TO THE FLOW
“Where are you between two thoughts?” — Sri Atmananda
We’re thinking constantly. The mind is always feeding us thoughts faster than we can process. We have this inner dialogue, our story about ourself and it’s holding our world reality together— problems and all.
What’s behind that dialogue? The gap between two thoughts. Or as Campbell puts it:
“That’s the source field out of which all of your energies are coming.”
That’s The One Flow, in a nutshell. You have to tame the mind and then create habits to get to the flow.
WHAT WE’RE BUILDING HERE
This publication exists to make this flow a practical reality — not just a philosophy or thinking. We will definitely explore what it is and how it works but moreover we’ll explore a set of tools to actually use, to do things to get there.
We’ll explore the teachings, practice these techniques together, and build a community of people who know they’re creative by nature and want to build a life that flows more.
If this resonates with you, then hang out — we'll go deep into it.