Greetings are to All,
I identify with anyone whence they say that cleaning puts them in a state of flow. I remember watching “The Einstein Approximation” is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. This episode first aired on Monday, February 1, 2010. The summary includes, “Sheldon’s search for the answer to a physics problem (Why electrons behave as if they have no mass when traveling through a graphene sheet-a sheath of stacked carbon molecules) keeps him awake for several days and he becomes obsessed with trying to solve it acting crazier than normal.”
Which is in a sense a superior/excellent example of the flow state dichotomy based on the wave or the particle in quantum physics.
“A few hours afterwards, Leonard and Penny are asleep again, but Sheldon wakes them up and tells them that his solution to his math problem is working in a menial job, much like how Albert Einstein did when he was working at the Patent Office in Switzerland and discovered special relativity.
https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Einstein_Approximation
Sheldon has his epiphany.
“The next day, Sheldon goes to a job center and tries to apply for several menial jobs, but quickly angers the clerk he talks to. Sheldon is eventually removed from the center by security and decides to work as a busboy without pay with Penny and Bernadette at the Cheesecake Factory. Sheldon quickly realizes that being a waiter is more menial than being a busboy, and quickly trades positions, excelling at waiting. Although he is never hired, the restaurant appears happy to let him continue with his work (presumably as he is not asking for pay). Later on, after taking Leonard, Howard and Raj’s orders, Sheldon accidentally drops a pile of plates, but realizes that he’s been looking at his problem all wrong and that the electrons move through the graphene in waves, and rushes off to solve his problem, leaving Penny to take care of his mess.”
From this episode, we glean that one type of flow, such as cleaning, can be an outward state of flow that can allow for an inner state of flow to be happening simultaneously. So that a portal between flow states can allow/qualify for an epiphany whence the creative intellectual flow state spontaneously opens because of some simple but meaningful synchronistic event from the mundane physical flow state. I use this technique often and clean/do housework intensely whence working on a research problem. Most naturally and automatically, some synchronicity in the mundane world or external flow state will trigger an experience that will allow the inner intellectual, creative flow state to manifest itself. So, yes, cleaning the bathroom, a bedroom, or washing windows can and does put people into the flow state. If you notice, you may find that after you have cleaned the bathroom, a bedroom, or washed the windows some other area of your life opens up with freshness and new meaning. Cleaning the bathroom and finding fresh perspective in other areas of one’s life is another attribute of the flow state; it allows multidimensional self-expressions to transform simultaneously.
It does not matter what type of flow state one is in at any given moment in time. The most crucial point is to be in a state of flow. Soon, one begins to savor in gratefulness all the wonderful and varied textures that make up the myriad examples of flow states that are unique to everyone, depending upon one’s maturity in each of the VIP strengths. Each person is like a snowflake in this regard, complex delicate, ephemeral, and beautiful in one’s psychological ornate structure, like the concepts of PI and PHI.
Sincerely,
April Vihilidal
Greetings are to All,
After replying to your post, I was moved to go for a walk in nature. Walking in nature also puts me in a state of flow. On the walk I began to think about the following ideas that I wrote about in response to your experience of cleaning your room.
The study of Conceptual Mathematics and its effects on the human psyche whence overlaid upon the various archetypes, as described by Carl G. Jung, of the same human psyche in reference to creativity and the state of flow can produce a sense of euphoria in any of the various archetypes described above.
The study of Quantum Physics and its effects on the human psyche whence overlaid upon the various archetypes, as described by Carl G. Jung, of the same human psyche in reference to creativity and the state of flow can produce a sense of euphoria in any of the various archetypes described above.
- How may the study of cinematic messages evolve society through humor, narrative elements, and aesthetic approach whence portrayed in sitcoms by national networks in culture as observed by an individual in that culture?
The study of cinematic messages that evolve society through humor, narrative elements, and aesthetic approaches may trigger a state of flow within the individual studying such messages upon realizing synchronicity that opens awareness and evolves one’s consciousness due to the trigging event found in the cinematic message.
2. How may simple acts of daily living, work ethics evolve society in shaping ethical workplaces and positive learning spaces?
Simple acts of daily living, work ethics, and how they may evolve society in shaping ethical workplaces and positive learning spaces can open an individual into the state of flow due to empathy and the feelings of oneness that are generated by sincere collective concerns for one’s highest good and the good of all concerned.
3. How may an individual identify portals for the state of flow within themselves?
Portals for the state of flow within an individual can be identified, reached, and followed into a state of flow by simply following one’s joy of concentration in deep focus.
4. How can and do portals, for the state of flow, connect within the psyche of an individual on various levels of awareness simultaneously?
Portals for the state of flow connect within the psyche of an individual on various levels of awareness simultaneously via threads of association/memory that link the various levels of awareness in time simultaneously through effortless and spontaneous imagery and creative imagination.
Upon walking, I realized another happening that can put one into a spiral of the flow state. Flow states can be ever-deepening and widening either externally or internally, depending upon the focus of the flow state. What I discovered that I never put into words prior to today is that one may find gestalt ideas within one’s consciousness and that act of gestalt from various personalities that utilize the virtue inventory assessment (VIP) may collaborate and unify a totally new idea based upon the initial ideas that the various personalities had within oneself via the spiraling gestalt.
Sincerely,
April Vihilidal
