The Flow Habit Podcast - Flow State, Creativity, Get Unstuck, Life Purpose, Manifesting, Guided Meditations

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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 

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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 

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 and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast launches a new series on Momentum--how to keep your momentum going and find flow (even when there are obstacles in your way).
Is there an area of your life where you want to keep your momentum going? Are you struggling to come up with a plan for making time for your creative dreams during summer when the kids are off school, you're taking vacations, or traveling? How can you keep your business flowing, and maintain the momentum you've created in your life even when life gets in the way?
What are some simple ways you can find flow and keep moving in the direction towards your dreams, while still taking off time to enjoy summer?
In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, Laurie Smith talks about how sometimes, there are areas of our lives that need our attention in order to keep momentum flowing forward. Have you heard the expression: "eat the frog"? Are there tasks you are resisting or even procrastinating that might be getting in the way of your flow or blocking your forward momentum?
Laurie guides you through a simple process of tuning into your intuition to discover what area of your life is calling for your attention. Which area is most important to you to keep flowing and momentum going, and what's a simple task or activity that will help you do that?
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 and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 
 
 

In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast takes us on a journey of exploration into the idea of having a life purpose, and designing a life that flows.
Discover the three components of living a life filled with purpose. They are not what you might think!
After listening to this episode, you might look at your life in a new way and discover that what you "think" is your life purpose might actually be the firm foundation you need so that your true purpose and your creative spark can shine!
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 and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 
 
 

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed or disorganized that it was difficult to get into flow? The first step to experiencing flow is focus. We need to know what our priorities are, and have systems in place to help us reach those priorities. 
Sometimes, we can hold too tightly to what we think is supposed to happen, or to our goals, so that we don't allow for the fluidity that flow requires. We might have systems so dialed in (or be trying to create so much structure) that we are actually blocking flow.
On the other hand, sometimes we need more structure or predictability in our processes so that we can keep flow going. The containers we create for flow become the systems we develop for our lives.
In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the flow book The Flow Habit, and host of The Flow Habit Podcast does a deep dive into what you need to do to boost flow in your life. 
Creating a high-flow life isn't about following a formula that some expert has developed. In spite of what we often hear about flow, we're all Flow Experts! The key to experiencing the flow state more often, boosting creative flow, and creating lives that flow is all about "knowing oneself."
As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into what you are trying to accomplish in your life this week, and how you can support yourself, possibly with some more clarity and systems, so that your experience flows!
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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 

In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast. host Laurie Smith helps you get clear about where you're at when it comes to flow and your top priorities, and what to do about it.
This is the third episode in a series on the connection between flow and clarity.
In this episode, Laurie offers tips to help you identify which of the five stages of the SAFER Flow Cycle you are in, as well as questions you can ask yourself to keep your flow going.
The SAFER Flow Cycle was introduced in Laurie Smith's book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles (Hay House/Penguin Random House). 
The acronym SAFER is key because emotional safety is so important when it comes to getting into flow, and so often overlooked. Flow can also make our businesses and relationships stronger and SAFER, meaning more resilient over the long-term, because flow is how we innovate and evolve.
 
In this episode, Laurie helps you identify how you are feeling. This clarity can help you access flow more easily. Flow is how you grow. Growth leads to resilience and long-term safety by helping you contribute at your highest level.
When we are all-in, locked-in, fully focused on a task, that’s when we have the highest chance of enjoying the moment and being our best selves.
Even amidst the peaks and valleys, the overall feeling of flow is forward motion—one undulating flow wave after the next.
Struggle, at first, as you find your bearings.
Accept that things are they way they are, and that you feel the way I feel. (It’s all OK!)
Find your own way, often by following the four FEEL steps of flow—check them out in Laurie Smith's book The Flow Habit.
And then voila! You are back in flow again, happily…
Enjoying yourself and the moment.
Then comes…
Rest.
Rest is how we integrate and metamorphosize into our New Normal, becoming one with the constant movement, however quiet or unseen, that is the very nature of life itself—one miraculous moment flowing into the 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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

In this episode, host of The Flow Habit Podcast and author of The Flow Habit (Penguin Random House/Hay House) leads one of her powerful guided meditations. This meditation is designed to help you deeply relax, connect with your own inner GPS about what is in your best interest, and let go of anything holding you back in becoming more clear about your priorities and goals, and what matters most. 
PLEASE NOTE: This episode includes guided visualizations and a meditation designed to be deeply relaxing.
**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.
This is the second episode in a series on the connection between flow and clarity.
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!
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
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles