Sunday, June 17, 2007
Flow achieved
We had a great conversation at bookclub last night. In fact, I caught myself in a moment of flow when we were going around the table talking about our own personal flow experiences. We've been meeting as a group for 15 years, but we all don't socialize together outside of our dinners, so it was fascinating to hear what experiences were meaningful for each of us. It was interesting, however, that no one brought up relationships or food experiences. (I personally have experienced flow over a DQ chocolate cherry Blizzard, especially at dusk in summer, but I don't think that's what we were talking about.)
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Flow with a DQ Blizzard---I love you Riverlark! You Rock!
I usually identify Flow as what I call a "Sacred Moment." It'll come over me, the beauty of one scene, conversation, taste, and I have to stop and just let the Universe flood through me. Happens a lot when I'm out hiking or canoeing (or kayaking or camping or....). Happened at Penland on a daily basis.
Hi Eero,
This book encouraged us to work towards flow at all sorts of moments and even suggested that you could find it at times of stress or hardship...it's about being conscious and finding a groove between anxiety and boredom in as many activities as possible! I'm paying bills right now and can't move out of "anxiety." ;-)
As stressful as my former jobs (particular my most recent one) have been, Flow was a regular occurrence. For example, it happened regularly when I had a big writing project. It still happens now when I write (and I'm not talking about writing The Great American Novel, but simply regular writing: a letter, a long email to a friend, even a longer blog post).
It's a good thing, of course, but the other side of the coin is that it's more difficult for me to express myself in images (rather than with words). It's one of my goals for this year, and one of the reasons I signed up for Laura's class. It reminds me of the Penland Movement person's advice to practice writing with your non-dominant hand. You can become too reliant on one method of expressing yourself, to the detriment of other forms of expression.
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