Meditation Helps Us Reach Our Effortless Flow In thinking about the flow state as active participation, how can we use mindfulness practices to access this flow? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” “The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times-although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. As your awareness is so deeply present the usual mind chatter, anxieties, even aches and pains, begin to dissolve and all that seems to exist is what is right in front of you. Your mind becomes fully engaged and aligned to what you are doing, something you’re passionate about. This flow state is not usually accessed in passive states or deep relaxation it requires some level of activity.
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The flow state is accessing a feeling where you become fully immersed in whatever you are doing, giving your full attention to the task or endeavor at hand. There’s a concept called the flow state popularized by positive psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura. Letting go of the idea that we must remain completely still or unmoving to find peace gives us the chance to discover peace every day, no matter where we are or what we are doing. Movement allows us to explore the inner workings of our bodies, minds, and hearts. It’s a state of freedom from disturbance where there can be a flow, a dance that creates ease and peace. It’s not always a turbulent storm or fast and disruptive, sometimes movement is as soft as the breeze moving through the leaves on a tree or the blades of grass in a meadow. For all life to sustain there must be movement and that movement can take form in a multitude of ways. Truly, the only time anything is ever still is when life ceases to exist. I believe that the concept of stillness is relative to what we open our eyes and our minds to seeing. When we can reimagine what access to inner peace looks like we start to find it through a balance between movement and perceived stillness.
In truth, no matter how we look at things, there is always motion happening within us and all around us. There is an idea that inner peace is found solely through outer stillness, namely when we are seated in meditation or maybe in a restorative or yin asana practice. With the constant movement of the world inside of and around us accessing a sense of inner peace can feel quite far away. Broadly speaking, our cells reproduce entirely every 7 to 10 years. Upon zooming in further we see, on an even subtler level, that even our cells are in constant transformation. The range of what we experience each day is expansive. When we zoom in even closer we see that our individual lives are always in flux, moving from task to task, thought to thought, emotion to emotion.
Quite literally we are moving at roughly 1,000 mph as we spin through the universe.
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