Posted by dj on July 12, 2000, at 0:54:44
Noa,
In an earlier posting you noted that you had picked up one Dr. C's books on Flow. How goes it?
I had noted that I had written something about it some time back, contrasting the Seven Hallmarks of Flow with the Seven Hallmarks of Ambivalence which ofen is a reflection of a depressive mindset and experience. Here it is for you and others to compare, contrast and ponder, should you choose to do so:
Seven Hallmarks of Flow
1. Involved completely in what I am doing. Focused. Concentrated.
2. Sense of ecstasy; of being outside reality.
3. Great inner clarity. Knowing what needs to be done and how well I am doing.
4. Faith that the activity is doable; that my inner skills are adequate to the task.
5. Sense of serenity; no worries about myself. A feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego.
6. Timelessness. Thoroughly focused on the present. Hours seem to pass by in mere minutes.
7. Intrinsic motivation. Whatever produces flow becomes its own reward.
Seven Hallmarks of Ambivalence
1. Scattered.
2. Uncertain. Whose reality and what is real anyway?
3. Internal confusion and combustion. Certain that something needs to be done but uncertain what so alternates between activity and questioning activity and self. Uncertain how one is doing.
4. Doubtful that the task is worth doing or one is up to doing it,if one was to consider it worth doing.
5. Anxious. Hyper-sensitive. Many worries. Feeling very boundaried with ego running hot and cold...confident one moment, (k)not the
next...6. Oppressed by time ticking away, fleeting into the future and away from the past both of which weight heavily in the present.
7. Intrinsic de-motivation. Don't know whether to be, to do or to go do a doobie....or what???
Sante!
dj
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