The Flow

 Sri Sadgurubhyoh Namah

*The flow* 

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Talks about a flow channel. He gives an example of a tennis player, immersed in the play, and time warps. There is no sense of time and there is no sense of self-consciousness (ego vanishes, self-talk, self-doubt vanishes).

This flow is experienced by anyone who played sports to some extent, or in ordinary life.

However, I talk of a different flow. The flow of awareness.

When you are aware of your every move, purposeful, mindful activity, fully aware. Here, self-talk is absent, self-doubt is nil, and there is no ego. There is no self-consciousness, there is only consciousness, awareness, and joy. A joy that is felt in the moment, not forgetting yourself like in what 'The flow' talks about. 

This is the joy of enlightened living.