Currently feeling: Like the world got quiet for a minute

A flower arranging class gave me more peace than my meditation app ever has.

Currently Feeling is a newsletter about noticing what lights you up — and building a life that lets that version of you breathe daily.

I write about creative health, personal replenishment, and beauty as a felt experience. Think: flower arranging on a random Tuesday. A solo coffee walk just because. The quiet thrill of catching yourself in a moment and thinking: Oh. This is what it means to feel alive.

Come for the aliveness, stay for the very real magic of paying attention.

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I didn’t hear the voices in the room until I placed the final flower in the vase. 🌸

Somewhere between trimming stems and nudging petals into place, my brain just… got quiet.

I wasn’t tracking what anyone else was doing. I wasn’t trying to make something impressive. I wasn’t even aiming for relaxation.

I was just... there.

Focused. Engaged. Moving without second-guessing.

It wasn’t the kind of quiet you chase with a meditation app. It was the kind of quiet that sneaks up on you. That you notice only once it’s gone.

And when I looked up, I realized the room had been full of conversation the whole time. I just hadn’t noticed! I’d been somewhere else — inside a creative flow state.

Here’s the wild part:

Flow isn’t just a buzzword creatives throw around. It’s an actual, studied neurological state. When you’re in flow, your prefrontal cortex (the part of your brain responsible for planning, analyzing, self-critiquing, mental multitasking) quietly powers down. 🤯

You stop overthinking. Stop judging. Stop narrating your own experience in real time.

Instead, you’re simply there, absorbed in what you’re doing. Time stretches (or disappears). Your inner monologue quiets. Your body, mind, and attention start working together instead of fighting each other.

(Again, 🤯!!)

It’s not magic, but it feels like it.

I came for a fun ‘lil creative outlet, but I left with a nervous system that felt like it had taken a nap in the sun.

And honestly? That kind of presence — low-stakes, fully engaged, refreshingly unproductive — feels like something I want more of.

💭 Have you ever caught yourself in a moment so quiet, you didn’t realize you’d been in it until it ended?