Friday, December 6, 2013

Ashley Bowles- Flow “Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture” #2



            In the appendix of “Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture,” flow is defined as “the merging of actions and awareness, the crucial component of enjoyment... flow is made possible by a centering of attention on a limited stimulus field, by means of bracketing, framing, and often a set of rules.  There is a loss of ego, the self becomes irrelevant.  Flow is an interstate so enjoyable that people sometimes forsake a comfortable life for its sake. (pg. 254)” 
            If you are not fully in the flow you are not truly connected with God or in the spiritual moment.  The merging of actions and awareness is everything coming together and you being totally focused on that one thing, which is what makes flow possible.  You are not worrying about just yourself it is not about you at this moment; it is about what the experience of the flow is.  You are not being self-centered. 

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