Perpetual High

This was a favorite word, a long long time ago, and it came back today.

It’s a for sure aspirable place to be. Sure there will be so many facets of life unfolding around you, and those you need to partake of, some good and some not so good, but when you are in a state of flow, when you can find that space in yourself which will not be contained, it’s the most enabling and empowering of feelings. 

I’m sure we all hit our points of flow, when you feel so aligned, so good to be doing just what you're doing. I’d think it’s worth using all our self awareness skills to know what it takes to get to that state of flow.  It’s like that definition of a goal…it’s not necessarily where you get to, but the direction in which you move. And you'll soon find you can hit it more and more often and stay there for longer and longer periods.

It’s said that ”Being able to enter flow is emotional intelligence at it’s best; flow represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performance and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand."

Csikszentmihalyi ( we’ve seen complicated names, but nothing like this one) says, ‘People seem to concentrate best when the demands on them are a bit greater than usual, and they are able to give more than usual. If there is too little demand on them, people are bored. If there is too much for them to handle, they get anxious. Flow occurs in that delicate zone between boredom and anxiety’

Watching someone in flow gives the impression that the difficult is easy; peak performance appears natural and ordinary.

Daniel Goldman says 'The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture. Because flow feels so good, it is intrinsically rewarding. It is a state in which people become utterly absorbed in what they are doing, their awareness merged with their actions. Even being aware ‘I’m doing this wonderfully’ can break the flow. And although people perform at their peak while in flow, they are unconcerned with how they are doing, with thoughts of success or failure – the sheer pleasure of the act itself is what drives them.”

A true Power of Now.....Surely worth aspiring to