Flow, Episode 5 – Flowing Sex

We're going to ask some of life's biggest questions in this girthy episode. What sex toys does Dan use? Does pain exist? Can lavender cure PTSD?The Body in Flow is the subject as we examine the senses, particularly sight and touch, to explore sex, art and walking as Flow activities. We look at "Flowing sex" in many positions, touching on some of the loose ends of our Perversion episode last season, but also considering monogamy as a Flow activity. James leaves the Private Practice Studio this week to take you on a walk somewhere hideous, to talk about aesthetics and to see if he should be changing the world or merely looking at it. We go on a tour of an art gallery to create order in consciousness, and question which other states of mind you can access by walking into them. There's a scientific conundrum about the existence of pleasure and pain, and an ethical one about how to interpret it. And if you're playing along with the drinking game every time Dan says "Flow experience" or "accessible" you'll be unconscious before we're even half way on our odyssey this week. It makes sense (at least one of them) to fully use your ears and concentrate on the stimulation (and titillation) of The Body in Flow.Find all episodes of Private Practice Podcast and send us your thoughts at www.privatepracticepodcast.net – I'm sure we will enjoy the Flow experience of reading your concise, considered and extraordinarily witty contributions.'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi claims to be 'The classic work on how to achieve happiness', although we think it's more like 'how to create states of purposeful complexity', which make for enjoyment, which can be interpreted as happiness. But obviously no one is going to write that on the cover of a book. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent over two decades looking scientifically at situations in which people from a variety of social and biological backgrounds report feelings of deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is a state of ordered concentration and complexity, which eliminates the psychic entropy that causes anxiety, and he called this 'Flow'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.