flow out all around you. you are a field, after all, not really a garden hose. though that visual can be quite useful, as well.
but, keeping that image of a field in mind, you can easily see that anything that raises any part of that greater field will have an influence upon the entire field. so, you are ‘in service’ to all as well as to yourself. and you are doing nothing, as well as doing all that can be done.
as for the last part of your question, “what am i connecting with?”, you are connecting with what you perhaps call god. but energy may also be directed. you call 