Hungarian-American positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls it a state of ‘flow’, or being in ‘zone’, a state wherein an individual is fully focused, absorbed and engrossed in an activity like an artist who pursues his task relentlessly. In Vedantic terminology, it is known to be in the state of ‘Anandmaya Kosh‘.
Getting into the flow, however, can be challenging as it does not work like an on-off switch but follows a complex psychological four-step cycle of struggle, release, flow and recovery, which is brain rewiring and memory consolidation phase. It is even more challenging to stay in the flow because there has to be a continuous state of ‘Dynamic Equilibrium’ between the skill and challenge required for execution.
‘Being in the flow’ was experienced by spiritual masters in the Himalayas. Blessed by the divine grace, these sages were able to unravel the basic goal of human existence, which is considered to be the ‘secret of secrets’, as elaborated by Krishn in the Bhagwad Gita.