Quality of life

When everything just feels right during our everyday life, we are in a state of flow. Flow is being engrossed in whatever we are doing, when we loose all sense of time and place. It isn’t until we venture out of the state that we think: "That’s awesome! I have to do that again". According to the researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is one of the pillars of life quality. The feeling of flow is absolutely worth pursuing, as it is: "The full commitment to these flow activities that create an exquisite life and not the pursuit of happiness".

To dance is, according Csikszentmihalyi, having a flow-experience. Through dance the fantastic feeling of "simply being" is achieved. To be able to feel the "now" one hundred percent. The feeling of flow is also described as a place "where self-absorption disappears and still you feel empowered physically". In these situations, "the physical and the mental energy unite in a joint focus and life provides a better scope for its ability". Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "Finding Flow - The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life" (Edited)