You’ve been there, at least once in your life and very likely quite often. Activities that get you there – to the experience of ONENESS, to the feeling of FLOW as Cskikszentmihalyi coined it are “truly rewarding experiences that require concentrated involvement and interaction with complex information. The things that give people ‘natural highs’ – playing music, a close game of tennis, an intense and meaningful conversation with a friend, a job well done – all require that we pay attention, that we look, listen, and act with care and skill.”
It’s these unified, activities of FLOW that draw you out of your inherent pre-occupation with self – the state that keeps you feeling small, self-conscious, self-censoring and stuck.
It is these special activities that compel our attention and invite us to reach beyond our self-imposed limitations that enable us to bring the best of ourselves to the present moment.
Do you know what compels your attention?
It’s easy to stumble upon and awaken to the awe experienced by the uniqueness of this sense of ONENESS on a particular occasion. It is quite another to live it. To make it your daily commitment is to live a disciplined life, a life governed by practice.
Actions you choose to take at a regular and specific time each day are practices. Done mindfully with a particular intent and attitude in mind, your practice becomes a ritual. Consistently repeated, rituals form habits creating the inner culture for a peaceful, balanced, mindful life.
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