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A special look at one final altered state of consciousness: Flow

Write down a list of activities or skills you practice a lot, are relatively good at but are not necessarily easy, and enjoy. A special look at one final altered state of consciousness: Flow. The optimal state of being!. Flow is:.

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A special look at one final altered state of consciousness: Flow

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  1. Write down a list of activities or skills you practice a lot, are relatively good at but are not necessarily easy, and enjoy.

  2. A special look at one final altered state of consciousness: Flow The optimal state of being!

  3. Flow is: • A state of mind identified by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a leader in the modern “Positive Psychology” movement • The mental state in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. • Single-minded, completely absorbed • “In the zone,” or “in the groove”

  4. How do you know you are in a flow state? • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5.

  5. How do you know you are in a flow state? Cont. • 6. • 7. • 8. • 9.

  6. What leads to flow? • Overlearning: • Stretching:

  7. What flow looks like (upper right hand corner)

  8. Flow in sports • Legendary soccer player Pele: "I felt a strange calmness.. . a kind of euphoria. I felt I could run all day without tiring, that I could dribble through any of their team or all of them, that I could almost pass through them physically.”

  9. Football • “There are moments in every game when ''time seems to slow way down, in an uncanny way, as if everyone were moving in slow motion. It seems as if I had all the time in the world to watch the receivers run their patterns, and yet I know the defensive line is coming at me just as fast as ever.” -Tom Brady

  10. Sports (cont.)

  11. Performance

  12. Performance, cont.

  13. Music

  14. Music (cont.)

  15. Art

  16. Religious/spiritual practice

  17. Hobbies

  18. Gaming

  19. Computer-based creativity

  20. Why is flow so beneficial? • Perhaps it is the true secret to happiness! • Research clearly shows that flow leads to: • Greater life satisfaction and more positive affect • better performance

  21. Can people experience flow in their work and at school? • What do you think?

  22. Watch and read more about flow. • http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html • Definitely watch this video! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9FuQ9AVYw • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI755iUMtHI&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfsgsFtgFs&feature=related • http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DD1E3FF93AA35757C0A96F948260&scp=1&sq=pele+%22felt+a+strange+calmness%22&st=nyt • http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19970701-000042.html

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