It was 1967 when I first became aware of the subtle “flow” in music. I was a music student then, studying music and music composition with noted author, theoretician, and composer Hugo Norden[1] at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. Most of us music aficionados are drawn to quality music (most often …
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Device used to enhance meditation, promote mindfulness, and reduce stress
What Is ‘Being in the Zone’? — the Fascinating Psychology of Super Productivity
Being “in the zone” is delicious, immersive, and…kinda trippy. Time collapses. Sound falls away. Suddenly we look up, and it’s 4 a.m. This tunnel-vision phenomenon is reported by athletes, creatives, and psychologists alike as a hyper-focused, sometimes spiritual, state of mind where anything is possible. It’s where we become our most productive, creative, and powerful …
Flow, the Secret to Happiness
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.”
Mother Nature: Designer-in-Chief
When I was still a student in music school at Boston University, I became aware of what I felt to be a subtle motion, or flow, in music that nobody was talking about. It was something slow, smooth, and not a direct component of the usual suspects: rhythm and harmony. At the same time, since …
A Visual Device That Enhances Meditative Practices and Mindfulness – The “Flow Machine”
A unique visual device, designed to accompany music, can help the viewer develop a higher capacity for mindfulness and getting into the meditative “groove”. Biofeedback research demonstrates that repetitive viewing of this device can reduce stress and likely enhance/strengthen our right brain hemispheres, putting that hemisphere on a rightfully equal par with the left. This …
Stress Reduction and Right Brain Hemisphere Activation – a Research Study
This article is an overview of a study conducted at the Nova University Biofeedback Lab, resulting not only in a new approach to stress reduction, but also an innovative method to “exercise” our right brain hemispheres promoting its rightful and equal dominance with the left. Doing so results in an increase in creativity, mindfulness, and …