Rhythm & Flow

Different elements involved in achieving flow Cskikszentmihalyi, 1990

There are clear goals every step of the way. There is immediate feedback to one’s actions. There is a balance between challenges and skills. Action and awareness are merged. Distractions are excluded from consciousness. There is no worry of failure. Self-consciousness disappears. The sense of time becomes distorted. The activity becomes an end in itself.

“When you are fully involved in a action and it is taking you to the state of pleasure, happiness, excitement or fulfillment. So that you are on a natural high at that time in your life. The world is at your feet and nothing can bring you down.” Tamra Lovern

While I am playing COD Modern Warfare 3, it consumes me. I am in my own world, time is endless. I get enjoyment in doing this and I will achieve flow.

Positive Psychology

Being in the zone

Notion of Good Character

Signature Strengths

Selflessness

Altruism

Flow

Wisdom and KnowledgeCourage

Love and Humanity Justice

TemperanceSpirituality and transcendence

This is the experience that makes an activity gratifying

Principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others.

Positive Psychology is a very important idea by watching our habits and day to day activates of our life and to see what we can change to get our flow back. By incorporating new ideas and activities in our life's, so we then have flow. Therefore relieving the stress factors in our life. So that we can enjoy life and have happiness because we have developed strength, honesty and perseverance, which all act as a defense against mental illness.

Waterfalls remind me of Flow. The soothing sound of the water and its beauty can take you to a relaxing place. You can just loose yourself in the moment.

As I focus on my water color paintingI have flow. Within my mind there is no one in the room with me. Only me, water color, brushes and my imagination. Not to forget the right music which puts to me in a deeper train of thought and even more relaxed. It gave me the ability to create and think more clearly. Because when I have flow I can use my inner resources to figure out my answers to the questions and come up with my own questions to be researched. Get ideas of how I want to do my audio/visual presentation.

Is something or someone interrupts my flow I will change whatever I need with my surroundings to get back to achieving flow. Because with flow I am relaxed and not stressed for then I have accomplished happiness.

(Cskiszentmihalyi, 1990, p.20) The key to happiness consists in how we invest our psychic energy. When we focus our attention on a consciously chosen goal, our psychic energy literally “flows” in the direction of that goal, resulting in a re-ordering and harmony within consciousness. http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

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By: Tamra Lovern0003627230

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyihttp://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/

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