How To Achieve Flow In Dance

The components that makes the flow, according to Csikszentmihalyi:

• Challenge-skill balance; the task at hand presents a challenge but still meet individual’s skills.
• Merging of action and awareness.
• Immediate and unambiguous feedback.
• Complete focus on the task at hand.
• Feelings of personal control over the situation and the outcome.
• Lack of awareness of physical needs.
• Transformation of time or timelessness; feeling so focused on the present that you lose track of time passing.
• Feelings of serenity; loss of self-consciousness.
• Autotelic experience; the task has a purpose in itself. A person does it for its own sake, because it is intrinsically rewarding (in comparison to doing something to achieve external goals).

What you Need To Do

• Set yourself a goal that’s challenging enough
• let yourself go.
• Eliminate possible distractions.
• Continuous movement
• Plan. Practice