A Book on Flow

When I read "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in 1990 I had no idea what he was writing about and it sounded almost magically far in the distance and only to be experienced by top athletes and high performers.

Of course, my state of projection in those days did totally ignore the reality out there, right in front my face. I was studying Land surveying back then in The Netherlands with a clear direction in my future.

Since my time studying Aikido, I started to notice this state of flow and went out of it as fast as it came to me: it intrigued me, the sense of a calm, effortless moving through space, this meditation in movement.

This state of effortless living is certainly not only for the high performers and the top athletes: you yourself are very much able to engage in this absolute peaceful harmonious state.

Perhaps not within sight you think, at this very moment as the world might be upside down for your mind due to past experiences or earth moving losses, but you are here, right here and that is where it all starts and happens. Nowhere else.

This book deals with the explanation, the initiation and maintaining of this flow state in yourself.
In my own words: how I picked up the words from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and started to define this within myself in my progress over time.

The world totally changed, but only within myself: my projections, my anticipation, the way I started to perceive the world as it is, not as I, this I thought inside, liked to see it or looking at it from a burning desire. None of that remained.

What stayed, was reality. Everything else vanished. The projection made way for daily happiness which I then realised, was there all the time, under these layers of thought and mind.

Enjoy this one too, things will fall into place.

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