A-to-Z Challenge: Consciousness

Hello! A few days ago, I went to a personal workshop for women called “What Color is Your Cape?” (mine’s yellow like sunshine, btw 😀 ), and I encountered the quote above. Patanjali was a Hindu author, mystic, and philosopher who codified and compiled a set of yoga practices into a systematic framework called the Yoga Sutras written in 3rd Century B.C. Though their origins are quite mysterious, some claim that the content is not mysterious at all, but rather the difficulty lies in practicing them. Sutras are an aphoristic form of short, sharp, and clear statements. He understood what it meant to find the flow in each arena of your life.

According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian American psychologist, in his book “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, he defined 8 Characteristics of flow:

1. Clarity – your goals and feedback are immediate
2. Concentration – total focus in the present moment with no room for distractions
3. Seamless Integration of Actions and Awareness – when you become what you’re doing
4. Lose Awareness of Self – sense of self is strengthened after each flow experience
5. Failure Becomes Inconsequential – you only learn, you can’t fail when you’re moving forward, you fail when you quit
6. Transcend Time – speeds up or slows down
7. Activities Become Intrinsically Rewarding – FUN! 😀
8. You Transcend Emotions – loss of self-awareness “What are they going to think of you?”

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In response to:

• Richa’s Freedom of Expression Challenge: Mystery