The Flow Habit Podcast - Flow State, Get Unstuck, Manifest Your Creative Dreams, Intuition & Guided Meditation

#79: FLOWTIVATE ~ 10-Minute Guided Meditation ~ Feeling Loved and Deeply Relaxed

This deeply relaxing 10-Minute Guided Meditation is designed to help create an inner sense of emotional safety, compassion, and love. In her book The Flow Habit, host Laurie Smith uncovers research suggesting that inner well-being can have a direct impact on our ability to get into a flow state, and that experiencing flow can boost our well-being. Listen to this meditation anytime you want to open your heart, feel loved and accepted, feel more compassion towards self and others, reduce anxiety, and experience a sense of calm and well-being. This meditation can help if you struggle with your inner critic, judgmental feelings, are healing from trauma, or want a simply way to calm your nervous system and deeply relax. **Warning: This meditation is not a substitution for professional or medical care. If you are in emotional distress, please see a therapist, physician, or consult a trained professional. Please do not listen to this episode and meditations or guided visualizations while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that requires your full attention. Download episodes with meditations and save it for a time when you can safely close your eyes and deeply relax. Guided meditations are not for everyone. Please consult with your physician or mental health provider and honor what is right for you. Research shows that guided meditation calms the nervous system, quiets the inner critic and inner chatter, can boost health and well-being, and help us become more able to experience altered states like flow experiences. Save this meditation for a time when you can deeply relax, close your eyes, and experience a calm sense of inner peace, being clear, knowing who you really are, and what you are feeling called to do next. If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/]! Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted. Here's how to connect with Laurie: Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/] Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge [https://www.lauriesmith.com/ready-to-flow/] Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow [https://www.LaurieSmith.com] Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit [https://substack.com/@flowhabit] Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired [https://www.instagram.com/LaurieSmith_inspired] Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-smith-773a956/] Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com [http://www.LaurieSmith.com]or www.TheFlowHabit.com [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com] Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice [https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Me-Creative-Finding-Following/dp/0977802221/] Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles [https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Habit-Creating-Everyday-Miracles/dp/140199735X/]

#78: Being "Good Enough" ~ Healing Perfectionism (MOMENTUM & FLOW SERIES #4)

Do you struggle with perfectionism? Has your inner critic ever gotten in the way of you creating, experiencing deep focus, or accessing a flow state? Have you ever struggled to find the balance between your messy, creative energy and your inner perfectionist? In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, host Laurie Smith shares her own battle with perfectionism, as well as a positive spin on what perfectionism may really be all about. Laurie offers tips for working with the many different aspects of creativity, including sharing work publicly that is "good enough."  If you are someone who is always looking to grow, learn, advance, and evolve; if you value doing your personal best; or if you've ever found your desire to do your best getting in the way of the overall flow of your life, this episode is for you. Discover how discernment and self-understanding can keep the momentum going in any area of your life where you may sometimes be a little too hard on yourself. If you want to learn more about flow, the true self, the inner critic, or uncover your own unique formula for flow, check out Laurie's book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/]! Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted. Here's how to connect with Laurie: Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/] Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge [https://www.lauriesmith.com/ready-to-flow/] Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow [https://www.LaurieSmith.com] Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit [https://substack.com/@flowhabit] Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired [https://www.instagram.com/LaurieSmith_inspired] Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-smith-773a956/] Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com [http://www.LaurieSmith.com]or www.TheFlowHabit.com [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com] Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice [https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Me-Creative-Finding-Following/dp/0977802221/] Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles [https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Habit-Creating-Everyday-Miracles/dp/140199735X/]

#77: FLOWTIVATE ~ 10-Minute-Guided Meditation ~ Taking Flow Higher

If you're feeling stressed out, jittery, or want a quick way to calm your nervous system, this 10-minute guided meditation can help. In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, host and author The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles Laurie Smith guides you through a simply way to connect with an inner sense of well-being and flow. Flow begins with feeling a sense of emotional safety. Research suggests that the more stressed we are and the higher our levels of cortisol, the more difficult it can be to get into a flow state. This deeply-relaxing guided meditation to help you deeply relax and feel connected to your True Self or Flowing Self. This 10-minute guided meditation is designed to calm your nervous system, reawaken your intuition, feel a sense of inner peace, and help create the ideal conditions for relaxed, focused work in flow. **Warning: Please do not listen to this episode and meditations or guided visualizations while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that requires your full attention. Download episodes with meditations and save it for a time when you can safely close your eyes and deeply relax. Guided meditations are not for everyone. Please consult with your physician or mental health provider and honor what is right for you. Research shows that guided meditation calms the nervous system, quiets the inner critic and inner chatter, and can help us become more able to experience altered states like flow experiences. Save this meditation for a time when you can deeply relax, close your eyes, and experience a calm sense of inner peace, being clear, knowing who you really are, and what you are feeling called to do next. If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/]! Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted. Here's how to connect with Laurie: Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/] Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge [https://www.lauriesmith.com/ready-to-flow/] Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow [https://www.LaurieSmith.com] Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit [https://substack.com/@flowhabit] Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired [https://www.instagram.com/LaurieSmith_inspired] Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-smith-773a956/] Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com [http://www.LaurieSmith.com]or www.TheFlowHabit.com [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com] Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice [https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Me-Creative-Finding-Following/dp/0977802221/] Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles [https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Habit-Creating-Everyday-Miracles/dp/140199735X/]

#76: Get Unstuck and Flow Higher (FLOW & MOMENTUM SERIES #3)

Ever have one of those times when everything's humming along, and suddenly flow stops? Maybe you've experienced this with the flow state. You might get interrupted, or your own thoughts or process gets in the way. This can also happen with life. Events that are beyond our control can affect whether it feels as if life is flowing or lurching along. Today's episode of The Flow Habit is all about uncovering your own unique formula for getting unstuck, using the metaphor of the garden hose. You know how, when you bend a hose, the water stops? The same thing can happen with our own flow. Knowing yourself is the key to finding out how to get unstuck. In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the book The Flow Habit and host of The Flow Habit Podcast guides you through questions to ask to recognize your own personal "stuck" triggers--what stops your flow? She also guides you through an intuitive process to tap into your own sense of a higher flow. Identifying being tapped into flow feels like to you (and it can change depending on the activity and circumstances) is the beginning to finding your own unique formula for getting unstuck. Rather than looking at being "stuck" as a problem, Laurie invites us to explore it as what happens in real life over and over again. Knowing what works for each of us is the key to not just tapping into a higher level of flow, but taking our lives higher too. Here's how to connect with Laurie: Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/] Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge [https://www.lauriesmith.com/ready-to-flow/] Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow [https://www.LaurieSmith.com] Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit [https://substack.com/@flowhabit] Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired [https://www.instagram.com/LaurieSmith_inspired] Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-smith-773a956/] Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com  [http://www.LaurieSmith.com]or www.TheFlowHabit.com [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com] Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice [https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Me-Creative-Finding-Following/dp/0977802221/] Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles [https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Habit-Creating-Everyday-Miracles/dp/140199735X/]

#75: Getting Your To-Dos Done & Keeping Your Promises to Yourself (FLOW & MOMENTUM SERIES #2)

Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the to-dos on your daily to-do list? Or maybe you're feeling life pick up speed as we navigate the 100 days of May! Graduations, final exams, end-of-school parties, and getting work ready for summer vacations can all become clutter keeping us from feeling a sense of positive flow and momentum with those other priorities in our lives. In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast continues her series on Momentum--how to keep your momentum and flow going when life gets in the way. Have you ever considered slowing down to speed things up?  In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, Laurie Smith shares a strategy she's been experimenting with in her own life, and how simplifying our to-do list and how we approach time management can not only speed up flow, it can also give us more breathing space for those creative ideas to flow to us. As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into your habits and superpowers, and how you can better support yourself so that you are filled with a renewed sense of purpose, and so that your overall life flows in a way that works for YOU! If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, sign up for Laurie's newsletter at www.LaurieSmith.com [http://www.Laurie] and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/]! Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted. Here's how to connect with Laurie: Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com/] Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge [https://www.lauriesmith.com/ready-to-flow/] Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow [https://www.LaurieSmith.com] Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit [https://substack.com/@flowhabit] Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired [https://www.instagram.com/LaurieSmith_inspired] Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-smith-773a956/] Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com  [http://www.LaurieSmith.com]or www.TheFlowHabit.com [https://www.TheFlowHabit.com] Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice [https://www.amazon.com/Leap-Me-Creative-Finding-Following/dp/0977802221/] Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles [https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Habit-Creating-Everyday-Miracles/dp/140199735X/]