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12/11/2008 12:49 AM UTC
thanks for the add. much appreciated.
Dr. Angela S. King
12/4/2008 12:06 AM UTC
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The FLOW Experience
8/29/2008 11:48 PM UTC
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Sheryl Lynn
8/27/2008 9:09 PM UTC
Thank you for checking out my show, Glow With The Flow on The Vortex Network. I hope you'll visit again. And I LOVE what you've done with the word F.L.O.W. I wish I'd have thought of it first! Stay in the F.L.O.W. United in Love, Sheryl Lynn
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Since 2005, The F.L.O.W. (For Love Of the World) began as a dialogue between three men, Marc Collins, Angelo Hunt and Roy Frank sharing their feelings regarding their past relationships. Through their dialogue Marc, Angelo and Roy forged a bond that is not common among men. The discussions quickly moved from telephone conversations, to the Internet with male and female participants, to monthly forums held in a variety of venues bringing men and women together to discuss relationships. The Flow (For Love Of The World) is a relationship dialogue consisting of an online internet forum (www.flow4theworld.com) and regularily scheduled relationship events where there are discussions regarding such topics as “Why Men Fear Love & Intimacy”; “Sex, Religion & Spirituality”; “ Are You Ready For a Relationship?”; among others. F.L.O.W. events provide a platform where fundamental relationship issues are candidly discussed that go beyond “baby momma drama”. Originally from the New York Metro Area, Marc, Angelo and Roy came together to share their knowledge of relationship pitfalls, challenges and successes. . The Flow Advocates: * One of the Prime Relationships is with yourself: Having a healthy, loving relationship with yourself is a key to successful relationships. * We are complete within ourselves: Relationships should enhance who we are not complete us. * Relationships are experiences that allow us to grow and redefine ourselves, if we choose. * We are responsible for our choices and consequently our relationship outcomes
Date / Time: 11/29/2009 11:00 PM UTC
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What is maleness, masculinity, manhood? Is it as real as the last James Bond movie or rap video? Are we striving to achieve a media projection that has no basis in reality? Do we live for the next conquest and just ride into the sunset or is manhood a living, breathing, feeling entity. What concepts do we try to live and bring into our relationships? And, how do these roles serve us
Date / Time: 8/30/2008 5:34 PM UTC
Check out The FLOW in Point of View. A monthly relationship column on the QBR website (WWW.QBR.COM). QBR is the creators and organizers of the Harlem Book Fair, now in its tenth year. As in our live events, the intent is to provide a different conversation regarding love and relationships. We will provide the GPS, not hype, to navigate through today's perplexing relationship terrain. Please join The FLOW in Point of View
Date / Time: 8/30/2008 4:16 PM UTC
If you remember, Neo, the hero in the film ‚The Matrix‚was given a choice by Morpheus. Choose the blue pill to remain in the illusory world of the Matrix, a world that was an elaborate simulation designed to hide it's inhabitants from who they are. Or, choose the red pill and face reality, for the first time with life's real challenges and ultimate successes. We all know what choice the hero made and he was consequently transformed as were those around him.
We all face a similar choice regarding our relationships. Unfortunately, too many of us choose the blue pill and opt to remain in a relationship world that is a figment of our media induced imaginations that in reality have little to do with the happiness we claim to seek. Welcome to the Matrix.
Where does the red pill lead us you may ask? I believe that can lead to self awareness, the first steps to meaningfulness in our individual lives and in our relationships. Bell Hooks, in her book, The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love talks about how we live in a patriarchal society where both men and women are removed from their true selves. Men are rendered out of touch with who they are emotionally; left pursue a macho fantasy that perverts their own lives and their relationships as well, this entails their relationships not only with their significant others, but also with other men, their children, their siblings and society. Women on the other hand, have been raised to enforce these male fantasies, though they may say otherwise and suffer as a result.
To believe that our relationships complete us as opposed to enhancing who we are is to remain in The Matrix. To believe that you must be in a relationship as opposed to, having a healthy relationship with ourselves is to remain in The Matrix. For both men and women to accept media induced concepts of manhood and womanhood that impact the quality of our relationships is to live in the simulated world of The Matrix.
Mathew Kelly, in his book The Seven Levels of Intimacy says ‚if we choose to base our relationships upon a foundation of a common goal to become the-best-version-of-ourselves...then our relationship will likely be marked with joyfulness and contentedness. To base relationships upon the positive evolution of the participants as opposed to the veiled need fulfillment prevalent in many relationships is not a painless process. However, it is a process that will yield, I believe, relationships that can thrive and provide satisfaction even if they are not everlasting. Do you dare to take the red pill? The Flow wants to know your opinion?
Date / Time: 8/30/2008 3:25 PM UTC
I recently viewed the documentary film "Lost White Male." In it, a young white male finds himself on a New York City subway heading to the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, not knowing who he is, why he is on the train or where he is going. This is a true story; this man had suffered for some unknown reason complete amnesia. He had no knowledge of his past, including childhood, family, friends, occupation, not even where he lived! He eventually found someone who knew him. He had to reacquaint himself with his life, quite literally reinventing himself. Those that had known him said that he was the "same man" but a "different person", a person with less edge, more emotionally forthcoming, more honest.
Is that "different person" within, being held hostage by all the stuff we have accumulated during our lives? What do we bring to our relationships that is authentically who we are? And, how much of who we are not, is playing havoc in our lives and our relationships. I believe that most of us are merely acting out our socialization, much of which is merely accepted as true and not been tested. It is only by validating what we say or think we believe, whether it's our sexuality or spiritual beliefs, concepts regarding love and relationships through our own experience, does it become true for us.
The paradox is that even though these concepts are not routinely validated, we continue to apply them to our lives, relegating ourselves to a cycle on disillusionment. This is particularly apparent in choosing and keeping a partner, where we find ourselves in different relationships with the same person. Finding out who we are and who we are not, in my opinion is the key.
How much of what we call our identity is really serving us in our relationships? I think that many of us suspect that what we project is not our real self. Dr. David Schnarch in his book "The Passionate Marriage” says that many of us in our relationships "...don't really want somebody to know who you are, you just want somebody to validate you instead." This validation is of what Dr. Schnarch refers to a "projected sense of self", a self that may not have a in basis in reality, but how we want or expect others to see us, whether positive or negative.
In the end, we must discover our authentic selves and discard what does not really represent us and gets in the way of personal fulfillment. How do we do this? It is a process. Roy Frank of The FLOW and I disagree on this point. He feels that we already know who we are, I say how can we? Nowhere is our quest for self-definition more apparent than in the ascendancy of the current celebrity culture where many vicariously experience life through their favorite celeb. Whether in politics, movies, TV, or even the latest 15 minute, media created personality, we seek external validation of who we are as well as who we are not. Our authentic selves are cluttered by manufactured celebrity and consumption. And, when we look at the real lives of these celebrity facades their lives, too often, are more disillusioned than our own. Again, how do we do discover who we are? It is a process.
Discovering who we are entails looking at our choices and not only why we make them, but where do they come from. Whether from our upbringing, religious beliefs, social conditioning, or unresolved baggage, this journey requires a striping away to our essential self, where we become that different person‚ and consequently begin to have different, fulfilling, relationship outcomes.
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