Tag: flow

Here’s to beginning this new year with a new habit!
As enticing as the idea was, I realised that writing- like every other well thought task, requires commitment. And I for one has been having a hard-time at doing it. Sometimes, you are full of ideas and yet deceived by productivity and results.

That’s what brought me to my first Weekly Word: FLOW

Commonly known through its slang- Zone; flow is actually a state of mind. It is the in-between space, where over doing beyond its borders leads to stress and being challenged under this level feels like a waste of our skill-set and hence boredom.

Have you ever been in a trance like state while working at something, so much so that you lost track of time and surroundings? So much so that, nothing mattered anymore but for the job at hand? Has an activity ever helped you disconnect from your here and now and transported you to a place of comfort and safety?
If you’ve ever felt this way, then my friend you’ve been in a Flow state of mind.

According to positive psychology, flow is a state of ‘complete immersion’ in an activity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the man who recognised and named this concept, says that flow is like-

“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, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”

*Media Credits to The Flow Campaign on Behance

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