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Utilizing flow, like meditation, can almost put the brain on steroids.

Flow allows us to make use of the calm, proactive "drugs" that arise in our body with forward motion.

I retaught myself to climb trees in the spirit of a rock climber. I started doing this in Central Park.

I believe that by climbing trees and being in flow with that tree, I restructured my brain "operationally."

A tree may be your invitation to flow. Source: mariya_m / Pixabay

The most profound reading experience I've had was the book Flow , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that three times fast) . It was taught in a Brown University psychology intro class.

Flow , the theory or term discussed in the book, agrees with my father's thinking that happiness is derived from the process (rather tha

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