Flow in Relation to Spiritual Journey

Flow is most closely defined as the merging of action and awareness. Spiritual rambling can sometimes produce the flow experience, if one can properly engage themselves in their surroundings in order to reach it. During the process of action and awareness, the consciousness of the one engaged in the action is directed away from the self and even away from the techniques that would accomplish the action. Within the flow experience, the sojourner’s self consciousness evaporates in a total focus on the action of walking and connecting with the constituents of the environment. An important quote that accurately represents the flow phenomenon is, “one is very aware of one’s actions, but not of the awareness itself.” Upon this quote, what is depicted is the fact that when one is fully immersed in the flow experience, they are aware of the actions that they are carrying out, but not aware of the fact that they are being so aware of themselves. It is actually stated that for flow to be maintained, one cannot reflect on the act of awareness itself. They must continue to envelope themselves in the surrounding nature, allowing their mind to freely wander among all there is to offer in the environment. Doing so will maintain the experience of flow and permit the rambler to connect their mind wholeheartedly on their spiritual journey. Merging of action and awareness is made possible by solely focusing one’s attention on a limited stimulus field. That is, incorporating oneself within the environment and freeing one’s mind of everything else. The experience of flow is an important aspect of engaging in a spiritual journey.