flow is the mental state of operation 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. i am familiar with this elusive feeling, and concur with a recent description of flow which emphasised the fact that past, future, self and other concepts dissolve when so focused in the now.
examples of when flow has occurred:
- when i swam the english channel
- when i entered the roland gift and came first
- when captain picard travelled to an alien planet and finally got some, after nigh on 10 years of not getting any (time stood still and crusher doesn’t count)
- when i watched captain picard travel to an alien planet and finally get some (time stood still)
- when i saw commander adama with a moustache
- when i found spock’s brain.
this following musical/visual combination may lead to you experiencing flow, it did for me. don’t be scared, embrace the now, the future will continue after the song finishes… or will it…. in my time machine:
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