John 7:37-39 · 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 · Acts 2:1-21
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... beautiful that is evokes an emotive response of exhilaration, peace, joy, or awe, we can also have these sorts of experiences other times in our lives when we are especially attuned to something both actively, spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls this a state of “flow” in his book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.[2]He notes the phenomenon in which artists for example can get so lost and immersed in their work that they lose all sight ...
In 1970, psychologist Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi coined a mental state in which a person would be entirely immersed, energized, focused, fully involved, and fully engaged. He first became interested in the phenomenon as he observed artists at work, some of them so excited and engaged with their work that they didn’t know what was going ...