Csikszentmihalyi Flow

In the flow state, Csikszentmihalyi found, people engage so completely in what they are doing that they lose track of time. Hours pass in minutes. All sense of self recedes. At the same time, they are pushing beyond their limits and developing new abilities. Indeed, the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to capacity.
People emerge from each flow experience more complex, Csikszentmihalyi found. They become more self-confident, capable, and sensitive.The experience becomes "autotelic," meaning that the activity actually becomes its own reward.
"To improve life, one must improve the quality of experience," he says. One of the chief advantages of flow is that it enables people to escape the state of "psychic entropy," the distraction,depression,and dispiritedness that constantly threaten them.

:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Mee-high Chick-sent-me-high-ee)

Investing in Pain

In the continuing quest for physical well-being, having weighed all kinds of logical and other reasoning into the choice, *Running* emerged as a clear and (on hindsight) only choice.
Relevant criteria:

• Time Reqd - as much (2hrs on sunday morn) to as little ( 25mts) afforded.
• Equipment - Running shoes,shorts ,cool shades..
• Venue - All roads (sometime every 24 hrs) look like a cruising freeway to a runner.
• CityGrind- A run can be accomodated in any city in any country in any schedule.
• Healthy - Heard about someone who beat leukemia just running.
• Shapely - The coolest human looks adorn real runners.

That done, the real reasons to get running:

• Eat/Drink and make merry and running takes care of the rest.
• You feel elevated in most all times/places for no local reasons.
• The inner satisfaction of those strong bionic legs attached to you make the world an easy walk at most.
• Most anything you could conjure up going wrong with your body..you know it .. nothing a good hours run won't beat out and away.. you just know.
• You just feel younger and ..
  

I had been running for years ( as an antidote to Mumbai's and my own unhealthy living/working/eating/drinking/... ) and knew if I needed to see some of my middle/old age I needed to just keep running at least once/twice a week.

Then I got into the marathon trippy..after two half marathons ( run in around 2 hrs) I knew I was doing it all wrong..too much energy being spent and panting like a dog is no fun while the Kenyans are *cruising* around double the distance in that time.
So, quick google and.. I learn *running form* is all it is about.

So here I am now perfecting my running form .. ballofthefeet running to be precise.

..more later on the journey into this amazing hip(driven) high.