This article expands on the theme of inner work. It focuses on using day to day experience to cultivate flow experience, merging action and awareness.
Last month's article on inner work, the effort to overcome the things that get in the way of one's own happiness, pointed to the need to manage discomfort by avoiding the "second arrow" - the tendency to tighten up around and resist discomfort. To step back, to be aware, focused on observing, enables this avoiding of the second arrow.
