Flow, Long-Term Goals and Stress Management

While being immersed in any kind of flow state (where time evaporates) is desirable, those with long-term goals seem to be the most fulfilling. Studying technical content like Math can be so absorbing that time and mind disappear making the 'problem at hand' more pressing and pleasing than any other problem one may have.

It would be interesting for mental health professionals to recommend brain fitness exercises as a stress management strategy.

The Mind Can Drive While it Does Other Things

The title of this blog post links to Verlyn Klinkenborg's article called "The Paved Mind" about how we can weed out the inessentials and drive while multitasking (talking on phone, texting, filing nails, etc)

This is what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says about the mind and flow
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html

Studying Math can provide this flow experience ;)