Lifescale by Brian Solis

Author:Brian Solis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-02-14T14:30:00+00:00

Slow. it. down. Stephen Schueller,12 a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, found that slowing down to take time to appreciate things leads to pleasure. “When subjects in a study took a few minutes each day to actively savor something they usually hurried through—eating a meal, drinking a cup of tea, walking to the bus—they began experiencing more joy, happiness, and other positive emotions, and fewer depressive symptoms,” he observed. Think about some things you enjoy doing that you haven't been making much, or any, time for. Make a plan to carve out some time each week to focus only on that activity, bringing all of yourself to it. Deeply engage with all of your senses. Your consciousness of time will fade as you immerse in the moment and you will feel restored.

Go with the flow. The phenomenon of losing our awareness of time is a well-documented component of the experience known as flow. You get into a state of flow when you concentrate on a task so intensely that you become immune to any distractions. Time is not on your mind, and you become entirely one with the moment. You are operating at full power, and the experience is like an adrenaline rush.

In his TED presentation on the subject, “Flow, the Secret to Happiness,”13 the father of the flow concept, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, recounts the experience of total immersion as a musical composer he interviewed had described it:

He doesn't have enough attention left over to monitor how his body feels or his problems at home. He can't feel even that he's hungry or tired, his body disappears, his identity disappears from his consciousness because he doesn't have enough attention, like none of us do, to really do well something that requires a lot of concentration and at the same time to feel that he exists.

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