How's Your HAPPINESS FLOW?

How's Your HAPPINESS FLOW?

Do you ever find yourself so completely immersed with WHAT you're doing that you tend to lose track of time?  All of a sudden you look up the time and realize that hours have passed and you missed your meal?  Let's pause and think a minute about this.  WHEN does this loss of time and total engagement typically occur for you?  True, this loss of consciousness that happens WHEN you are completely absorbed in an activity has been coined by psychologists as that STATE OF FLOW.  And in order for a FLOW STATE to occur, you must see the activity as voluntary, enjoyable, and it must require skill and be challenging with clear goals towards success.  Hobbies such as chess are a great example of implementing and experiencing that STATE OF FLOW.  Yes, I admit I spend on average, an hour for my chess games on my smartphone as this dovetails to our HAPPINESS FLOW???

So, How's Your HAPPINESS FLOW?  A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that flow is highly correlated with HAPPINESS.  Studies also show that people WHO experience a lot of FLOW regularly also develop other positive behavioral traits like increased concentration, self-esteem and performance.  With today's age of growing distractions, frustrations and uncertainties, let's admit it's difficult to attain genuine HAPPINESS💦💦💦

BUT there is hope though.  And psychologist advise us to start by lowering our stress levels as studies show, that leads to one's improved resilience in the face of adversity.  And we're advised that on the surface, let us be incisive to detect when our mind starts to be 'WANDERING' because at worst, it could lead to a spiral of despair.  Hurdling it could give you a head start going into that 'HAPPY ZONE' when we're expected to be completely engaged and absorbed, WHERE time flies happily by and WHERE toxic thoughts are banished from our mind❌❌❌

Moreover, we are advised to identify and build our personal HAPPINESS-boosting inner strengths to make us even stronger.  A recent study showed that people WHO identified their key strength and used it in a new way each week did significantly increase HAPPINESS and conversely reduce depression.  BUT the challenge for us is to discover within yourself how to better deal with adversity [WHEN it hits us hard] and taking the next step of building strong relationships with our family and friends.  At the end of that path, we should reap the benefits of developing gratitude with an unbridled optimism of our future😀😀😀

Our takeaway:  Barring outliers that can be attributed to 'Acts of God' [AOG], psychologists assure us that we have that human capability to enhance our ability to recognize and celebrate the simple pleasures in our daily life as they occur.  And without veering our careers towards psychology, we are encouraged to increase our awareness as regards POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY for us to focus to strengthening our character to enable us to build a life of meaning and purpose [and move BEYOND just surviving and flourish instead.  So, HOW'S YOUR HAPPINESS FLOW, dude?  That's NOT a long shot to achieve❗❗❗