Overdraft Health-Flow
As we all know, if a person wants to make a breakthrough in the field he is good at, he must "overdraw" part of his health, but when he overdraws his body, his brain is experiencing a unique experience, that is, flow.
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a positive psychologist, first put forward the concept of flow, which refers to a mental state that people experience when they are absorbed in something or a goal, forget time, devote themselves wholeheartedly and enjoy it.
So why are people willing to "overdraw their bodies"? In fact, it is because this mental state can not only directly improve a person's happiness, but also make you fully concentrate on the present life.
Mikhail later introduced flow in detail in TED's speech. He believes that people will feel "quite comfortable" for a long time after physical overdraft, because flow can improve people's self-esteem to a certain extent.
Xie Luofu and others' research found that people who are in flow state will have higher positive emotional experience, because people like this state of accepting challenges and developing new skills, which can not only make people feel controlled, reduce anxiety, perform better in school, but also improve their sense of self-esteem.
How to enter the flow state correctly?
Mikhail also pointed out in his speech that the difficulty of a thing for us and the difficulty of the skills we use to deal with it will comprehensively affect our feelings in the process of doing it.
Facing the challenges in life, we should focus on those things with high degree of challenge and high skill level, so that we can easily enter the flow state in the process of doing these things.
It can be seen that happiness is hard to come by. If you keep doing simple and unchallenged things, it will be difficult for you to reap the happiness of flow.
In the face of challenges, you must also master enough skills. Most things in this world are boring when they are done for the first time, and it is for this reason that they will feel interesting after investing a certain amount of time in study and practice.
Therefore, people can also achieve a state of flow by constantly adjusting the "challenges and skills" of things. For example, when you feel sad, it is better to learn a skill that interests you. In this way, you can use positive emotions to relieve your anxiety and sadness.
Set clear and specific goals.
When your goal is clear enough, you are more likely to take the initiative to accomplish it. And the realization of the goal will make you willing to make more efforts to enter the "flow" state. At this time, your body can't limit your actions, and the sense of completion of "overdraft" will make you more positive.
While paying attention to health, it is best to experience the peak experience of "physical overdraft", so you may get more flow experience.
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The first psychological group | magic small
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Positive psychology