Originally posted by DeadPoet:
[b]Please read the following accounts:
A dancer describes how it feels when a performance is going well:
Your concentration is very complete. Your mind isnt wandering,
you are not thinking of something else; you are totally involved in
what you are doing
Your energy is flowing very smoothly. You feel
relaxed, comfortable, and energetic.
A rock climber explains how it feels when he is scaling a mountain:
You are so involved in what you are doing [that] you arent
thinking of yourself as separate from the immediate activity
You
dont see yourself as separate from what you are doing.
A mother who enjoys the time spent with her small daughter. Her
reading is the one thing that shes really into, and we read
together. She reads to me and I read to her, and thats a time when
I sort of lose touch with the rest of the world, Im totally
absorbed in what Im doing.
A chess player tells of playing in a tournament:
the
concentration is like breathing you never think of it. The roof
could fall in and, if it missed you, you would be unaware of
it.
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1992, pp. 53-4)
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1992) Flow:
The Psychology of Happiness, London, Rider Press.
Taken from Understanding the Self edited by Richard
Stevens
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How many of you have encountered such experiences before? You are
so engrossed in what you are doing that you are mentally cut off
from your surrounding? Your house is on fire but your eyes are
still fix on the computer screen. 
For me, I am usually unaware of the passing of time when I am
writing poems. 
Csikszentmihalyi, an American psychologist calls this phenomenon
flow experience. He is interested in how people
feel when they most enjoy themselves. According to
him, we have the ability to direct our conscious and such skill is
important in improving our psychological well-being. Flow
experience, thus involves concentration of consciousness. It can be
as exciting as participating in a car race or as simple as taking a
slip of coffee.
According to him, most of us spend too much time engaging in
passive activities such as watching TV and hence unable to involve
flow experience. Thus if we are able to organize activities that
allow flow experience to occur regularly, we can improve our
quality of our lives and psychological well-being.
On the other hand I am not too sure about the last sentence which
implies that flow experience will always lead to improving the
quality of our lives. What we enjoy doing most may not always be
good for us, such as gambling, drug abuse, etc.
But if we apply this concept to positive activities I believe to a
certain extent it does makes us feel more alive. 
(If my interpretation of the concept/theory is wrong, please
correct me. Thank you.)
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yah mi got experience b4.. last time when i was mmorpg xiao, my
mum was talking to mi but i didn't even hear her.. beri jia lat..
mmorpg is addictive.. mi nv touch again... but world of warcraft is
so.... 
.. maybe i'll chong
chu jiang hu
