Harnessing Life Force | Flow Line Faces 06 30 26
Flow Line Faces is one of my core art meditation practices, one that has been with me since my early twenties. Currently I’m in a daily practice, logging multiple hours each day in this active meditation.
What fascinates me about this practice is that it delivers the dynamics of meditation through its method, but without falling into the usual trap of feeling like exercise or discipline. Flow Line Face drawings are rooted in play, that childlike dynamic most adults have lost connection with.
Beyond the meditative value built into the artmaking process, the experience addresses something I call calcification: a kind of aging of the body, heart, and mind. Left unaddressed as we age, this calcification becomes a major source of suffering , one that didn’t exist to the same degree when we were young. Much of this can be traced to the diminishing of play in daily life.
Many adults blame the stresses of adult responsibility for this loss. But looking more deeply, it’s less about the responsibilities themselves and more about the approach we take toward them. When play is integrated into daily life, what emerges is joy, relaxation, openness, and alert presence, the very essences of the Love and Truth practice I’ve devoted my life to, in service of nurturing and exploring my humanity as an artist and life experiencer.
The deeper point: play is an opportunity available to every adult, waiting to be rediscovered and developed as the medicine of these times we live in.
While creating Flow Line Faces (active meditation drawing practice) this insight arose:
Harnessing Life Force
“Life force is available to everyone. What differs is how consciously we receive, direct, and express it.”
Every human being participates in the same living energy that animates the body, flows through the heart, and activates the mind, to make creation possible. Yet the outcomes of our lives are shaped by how this energy moves through us. It can be directed toward fear or possibility, repetition or transformation, contraction or creative expression.
Scarcity begins as more than an external condition. It can become an inner orientation, a belief that there is not enough time, love, opportunity, support, or power available to us. When we identify with lack, the body contracts, the heart becomes guarded, and the mind continually searches for evidence that our limitations are real. Energy remains present, but its expression becomes restricted by the state through which it is moving.
The Love and Truth Practice does not ask us to deny practical challenges or pretend that every person has the same circumstances. It teaches that our deepest creative resource is the quality of energy we bring to those circumstances. We may not control everything life presents, but we can become more conscious of whether our attention, imagination, emotions, and actions are strengthening limitation or opening a new possibility.
Through active meditation, we return the body, heart, and mind to an open, relaxed, and alert state of presence. Tension is recognized before it becomes reaction. Fear is acknowledged without being allowed to determine direction. The heart becomes available to reveal what is loving and truthful, while the mind nurtured to clarity, helps translate that guidance into practical action.
The practice begins by noticing where life force is being wasted. Worry consumes energy without creating movement. Resentment keeps the past active. Comparison redirects attention away from our own path. Habitual thoughts of lack continually reproduce the inner conditions of scarcity. When these patterns are sincerely observed, their energy can be reclaimed and directed toward healing, creativity, service, and purposeful action.
Harnessing life force is not about forcing more energy into the system. It is about reducing unnecessary resistance and becoming responsible for what we already receive. Every conscious breath, clear intention, loving choice, and truthful action strengthens our capacity to participate in creation.
The cycle of limitation begins to change when we stop repeating its inner state. Abundance is not only what we possess; it is the freedom with which life can move through us.
Life force is already present. The practice is to align with it, guide it wisely, and allow it to become the life we are here to express.
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