Hi Thomas & Megha - it's so lovely to have you share your experiences of the Flow State here, and breaking through the old identity layers.

We had a phenomenal day here yesterday on retreat in Seattle. When you contemplate the restrictions of the old layers of identity, the way you're used to doing things, the typical ways you relate to yourself, the stories you're constantly telling the world about yourself, then in meditation you can actually start to feel this as an energy inside. Then all you really have to do is decide it's time to let it go, to break the container wide open. Because everything is simply energy, that crystallises around what you believe it to be.

At this point yesterday (and you can join this meditation by taking time out and doing it yourself): I got people to imagine themselves as the beginnings of a small flower, a seed, that was encased in concrete, just as many are encased in the 'concrete' of society. I got them to crouch down low and feel the weight of it all bearing down. But not to react to it. Simply to honour it as an experience, an energy that they could feel.

Then I reminded them that the most gentle of flowers can break open the strongest concrete. All it need do is probe and find a crack, then to expand into it. So we felt into this pain body, we probed into it with new shoots of beingness, and then..... started to crack the concrete open. Then I got them to feel the concrete beginning to break down and turn to soil. The meditation was clearly tuned in with Gaia, because right at that point, it began to rain, which you could clearly hear and feel through the roof of the studio. We experienced being immersed in dissolving rain.

The next was to feel the new emergence of this flower, gentle but strong, humble but colourful, with diverse and vibrant aromas, reaching upwards to the sun, then to express this in movement that became dance. You can join in, it's time to let go of the old limiting container, time to break out of the concrete box they put you in, and dare to step forwards and be the vibrant frequency of light that you are...

Afterwards we went out into the rain, looked up to the heavens, and let it dance on our faces, cleansing away that which no longer served. It was magical!