Recently, professor Mihalyi Csíkszentmihályi spoke a T.E.D. conference about his concept of flow.
During this, he had a particular in explaining the particular features od music flow, which occurs during music improvisation.
The theory or state of "flow", as it is now viewed in positive psychology, is a state of mind or life where there is no disorder to straighten out, or threat to the self to defend against, such that the release of liberated psychic energy is used or invested successfully in chosen goals. In short, flow is a state of concentration or consciousness so focused that it amounts to absolute absorption in an activity.
Seven Main Aspects of Flow:
1. Completely involved in what one is doing – focused.
2. A sense of ecstasy—of being outside everyday reality.
3. Great inner clarity—knowing what needs to be done, and how well one is doing.
4. Knowing that the activity is doable—that one’s skills are adequate to the task.
5. A sense of serenity—no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego.
6. Timelessness—thoroughly focused on the present, hours seem to go by in minutes.
7. Intrinsic motivation—whatever produces flow becomes its own reward.
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