Tray Norman Flow

According to Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, flow is the merging of action and awareness, the crucial component of enjoyment. It is the holistic sensation present when we act with total involvement, a state in which action follows action according to an internal logic, with no apparent need for conscious intervention on our part. What this means is that we cannot be aware of and thinking about the experience we have while we are experiencing it. Flow means that the experience will come without the person knowing it and without being concsious of the good or bad experience. After the experience is over is when you can talk about what happened. It is crucial to enjoyment because you cannot enjoy an experience if you are trying to intervene and control it. Flow occurs in sport and in play and can be a religious ritual. Although someone may be aware of what they are doing, he cannot be aware that he is aware, or flow will be interupted. Flow is an enjoyable inner state that people often take for granted or forsake a comfortable life just for it.