What else brings 'flow' or joy besides cars?

[StevieBee]

Anyone tried Yoga?

Yeah I know it's not exactly peak Pistonheads.

Started doing one of those P90X fitness programmes included in which is a yoga routine - all 90 mins of it. Skipped it for a while but gave it a go.

Amazing stuff. Proper Zen-like and my word, sweat inducing comes nowhere near close to describe the effort needed.

[Eyersey1234]

Reading for me, don't tend to read fiction but if I get engrossed in reading something interesting the time flies by. Also photography.

[RMDB9]

Flow jobs

[anonymous-user]

StevieBee said:

Anyone tried Yoga?

Yeah I know it's not exactly peak Pistonheads.

Started doing one of those P90X fitness programmes included in which is a yoga routine - all 90 mins of it. Skipped it for a while but gave it a go.

Amazing stuff. Proper Zen-like and my word, sweat inducing comes nowhere near close to describe the effort needed.

I do some yoga type moves but it’s more for stretching and strengthening on rest days. It’s more like 20 mins and pretty easy going and relaxing. It sounds very different from the zen beasting you’re doing.

[APOLO1]

P-Jay said:

I think it’s been said already but Mountain Biking gives me ‘the flow’. Sorry to say but cars don’t come close for me, nor did my Sportsbike.

There’s an element of meditation, you can’t ride a MTB remotely quickly unless it’s got your full attention, you can’t ride a bike and worry ‘stuff’ and went it ‘clicks’ everything just feels effortless and you cover ground that you couldn’t walk over if you tried.

I am with you on the this one with a MTB, track days give me a good Buzz, but not the same as going out on MTB for a good blast and in all weathers the wetter the better, Just put the right gear on. The World seems a different place after a good couple of hrs ride.

[steveT350C]

DJ-ing

Due to current virus I have been u able to play out to audiences so started broadcasting on twitch. I can easily do 7 hours continuous.

Last week I did Thursday Friday and Saturday, each about 6 hours.

[Jaguar steve]

StuntmanMike said:

Jaguar steve said:

Mr Dendrite said:

Time for everyone to go and read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

An absolute classic. Everybody should read it over and over again 'till they understand it.

"...Inner peace of mind. It has no direct relationship to external circumstances. It can occur to a monk in meditation, to a soldier in heavy combat or to a machinist taking off that last ten-thousandth of an inch. It involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with one's circumstances, and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity..."

I read that a few years ago, I googled the author and sadly the son Christopher ( I think ) had died in some sort of accident.

That's right. Tragically Chris was attacked and stabbed to death in his late teens.

Pirsig started sailing and wrote another book called Lila which was a follow up from Zen. If you think Zen was a bit of a challenging book you should try reading that...

[anonymous-user]

Pirsig wrote a great essay about sailing and flow, worth googling I think. zen and the art of sailing I think?

[PaulD86]

Another vote for mountain biking. I can think going up the climbs, but on the descents all my mental capacity is used up trying not to damage myself.... sometimes more successfully than others.

Lego is another thing that lets me totally switch off. Might have to start my Lego Lambo soon come to think of it!

[Origin Unknown]

Megaflow said:

In the current circumstances, very little...

Ironic username?

[Roofless Toothless]

Jaguar steve said:

Mr Dendrite said:

Time for everyone to go and read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

An absolute classic. Everybody should read it over and over again 'till they understand it.

"...Inner peace of mind. It has no direct relationship to external circumstances. It can occur to a monk in meditation, to a soldier in heavy combat or to a machinist taking off that last ten-thousandth of an inch. It involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with one's circumstances, and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity..."

My old dad, whenever circumstances threatened to get him down, had a habit of saying, "oh well, if I wasn't here I'd only be somewhere else."

It was only years later that I realised this was a pretty Zen saying, actually. If you can't be content where you are, and in the moment you are living through, you won't be content anywhere - because you will never be anywhere but where you are, and never at any time but the present you are experiencing. What my dad was saying was to not expect external changes to solve your problems, but look within to change your outlook.

And my contribution to the list of suggestions on this thread .... Winston Churchill was famous for his hobby of bricklaying. I can't think of a better way for a man with the responsibilities he had to block out all other distractions by doing something that appears fundamentally simple, but actually needs continuous concentration and attention to get absolutely right. It's a gateway to meditation.

[feef]

glenrobbo said:

stickleback123 said:

Have you ever had sex with a lady?

Yes.

Time passes very quickly indeed!

No, she just TOLD you it took several minutes

[coppernorks]

removing the hard skin from my feet.

[Robbo 27]

Old fountain pens, especially their restoration.

Motorcycles, almost anything apart from off road bikes


Craftsmanship, anything that is beautifully made.

Dogs, I weep when I think of a dog that I used to own.

[Megaflow]

Origin Unknown said:

Megaflow said:

In the current circumstances, very little...

Ironic username?

Very.

[V1nce Fox]

i just remembered another one, fixing old bicycles.

[Cyder]

Sailing for me, specifically the feeling as you hurtle downwind in a strong breeze with the boat surfing along waves.
It gives this odd feeling that is hard to describe of the boat being on rails dead stable and yet one wrong move away from a big capsize. (Yes I know that makes no sense!)

[anonymous-user]

Sitting by the river on a sunny day, in the partial shade of the trees, watching reflected sunbeams glitter on the underside of the leaves.

[Jaguar steve]

Cyder said:

Sailing for me, specifically the feeling as you hurtle downwind in a strong breeze with the boat surfing along waves.
It gives this odd feeling that is hard to describe of the boat being on rails dead stable and yet one wrong move away from a big capsize. (Yes I know that makes no sense!)

Planing fast downwind with way too much canvas up - there you are. That's really living for the moment.