Being in the Zone "Flow State"
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- Created: 3 years ago
- Category: Experiential spirituality
We’ve all experienced the flow state—when we’re completely in the moment, so intensely focused on the activity at hand that we lose track of time. It’s one of the most deeply satisfying and meaningful states we can enter.
Creativity researcher and psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (pronounced “chick-sent-me-hi-ee,” just as it looks) spent years defining, describing, and studying different aspects of flow, which he called “our experience of optimal fulfillment and engagement…being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one. Your whole being is involved.”
This group is for members to share their experiences with being "in the flow" or "in the zone" in life. What are your flow experiences?
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- jasony tagged Flow State/In the Zone (a group) 3 years ago.
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- jasony added Flow State with Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi (a video) 3 years ago.
- jasony added Flow State: Paul Newman in "The Hustler" (a blog post) 3 years ago.
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Flow State with Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
- Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: "When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life." He is the architect of the notion of "flow" -- the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake.Csikszentmihalyi teaches psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University, focusing on human strengths such as optimism, motivation and responsibility. He's the director the the Quality of Life Research Center there. He has written numerous books and papers about the search for joy and fulfillment. "A man obsessed by happiness." Richard Flaste, New York Times
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