Flow – Understanding the Concept
Flow, in essence is a state where the mind has reached a state of absolute focus, not so much so that the awareness around you diminish, but one where the mind’s level of awareness reaches a point of non-conscious reaction. The most common example comes from the breath, while each person that exists can control the rate of breathing, it is so necessary to our survival that our mastery of it has reached to a point were thought is not required to perform the action. That is true flow, allowing our actions to be performed without thought...allowing our focus be placed in other places, giving us a more advantages position in all aspects of life.
The easiest way to understand that the mind has reached flow actually happens *after* we exit flow. The perception of time itself is changed during flow, whether a person is a time mage or not. The most common phrase to think of is the old saying *time flies by when you’re having fun*. Think for a moment about each time that you were enjoying yourself, maybe when dancing with friends, doing an activity you enjoy like hiking...or training your body to the limit in a magic you are coming so close to in mastering. Once you are finished and are aware of the time...it’s hours later and you’re left wondering...where did the time go?
Flow...a of focus that transcends time and space itself, it all exists in the soul and in the mind. To put it in a sentence.... Flow is a space your spiritual and mental planes of existence intersect.
Flow, in essence is a state where the mind has reached a state of absolute focus, not so much so that the awareness around you diminish, but one where the mind’s level of awareness reaches a point of non-conscious reaction. The most common example comes from the breath, while each person that exists can control the rate of breathing, it is so necessary to our survival that our mastery of it has reached to a point were thought is not required to perform the action. That is true flow, allowing our actions to be performed without thought...allowing our focus be placed in other places, giving us a more advantages position in all aspects of life.
The easiest way to understand that the mind has reached flow actually happens *after* we exit flow. The perception of time itself is changed during flow, whether a person is a time mage or not. The most common phrase to think of is the old saying *time flies by when you’re having fun*. Think for a moment about each time that you were enjoying yourself, maybe when dancing with friends, doing an activity you enjoy like hiking...or training your body to the limit in a magic you are coming so close to in mastering. Once you are finished and are aware of the time...it’s hours later and you’re left wondering...where did the time go?
Flow...a of focus that transcends time and space itself, it all exists in the soul and in the mind. To put it in a sentence.... Flow is a space your spiritual and mental planes of existence intersect.