Flow, Episode 6 – Brain Flow

How much enjoyment can you get out of absolutely nothing? If you assign some time to close off those sensory inputs we looked at last time and leave the brain to stimulate all content, just how high can you get? Wordplay, daydreams and memory are all "looked at" this week (whatever that means). We also condense the entire history of the world into one concise podcast. Of course we don't, we bring up the subject of history instead as an ordered Flow activity to look at personal history, or psychoanalysis. Everything starts to come together in this episode as we include the many ideas in psychoanalysis not just in terms of creating the conditions of Flow for other activities, but as an inherent Flow activity in… you've guessed it… in the moment. It's the coming together of Freud and Jung with Csikszentmihalyi and Yalom, not to mention Dan and James. That can be as sexually charged as your subconscious demands. This week we go well beyond Dan's cognitive ability and plunge him into the abyss of anxiety, questioning if our lofty podcast is not accessible enough for you, basic simpleton. Well you can make the call on that one, mapping it onto your own Flow diagram of challenge and ability.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 thinking about your concise, considered and extraordinarily witty contributions, and trying to store them in a complex memory palace.'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.