Get in your flow. It may extend your life!
Spending more time in the flow state can extend our lives, by reducing stress and boosting serenity - promoting our mental and emotional wellbeing in a joyful way!
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Doing something we enjoy and love to do puts us into a state of flow, where we lose self consciousness and surrender to the moment.
We move into pure presence and put pay to our often pesky thoughts that can sway our mood and create a physiology of stress that can be detrimental to our health.
Applying attention to a meaningful and purposeful activity keeps our focus in the here and now and detracts from rumination, procrastination or catastrophisation – the main contenders for depression and anxiety.
Key is this full embodied immersion – the communion of mind and body - where our physiology shifts into the all important state of nervous system regulation – the rest and digest state which increases the hallmark of good health - resilience.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi (1990) is a classic and a great resource which I came late to even 15 years ago and even more relevant now than ever, still providing refreshing food for thought and practical applications to manage our increasing time poor, disconnected and stressful lives.
