[Media -seeing the World] No. 60: I forget about things, do you have this "heart flow experience"?

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Do you have to sleep for the work you are engaged in? At that moment, you seemed to sneak into a deep and quiet temple, isolation of the hustle and bustle of the outside world, but a sense of excitement and full warmth. What you experience is the "heart flow" described by positive psychology!

The fantasy comedy cartoon "Soul of the Soul" released in 2020 presents the psychological theory of "Heart Stream Experience" on the screen with a plot full of thoughts, presenting an extraordinary journey to the audience. The actor Joey is an ordinary middle school music teacher. He has just got a dream of performing opportunities, which is a step closer to the ideal of becoming a professional jazz. However, for a moment of ecstasy, Joey did not see the road under his feet and accidentally fell into an unstoppable sewer, thus caught in a deep coma, embarked on a "Soul Strange Brigade", and a virtual virtual with "No. 22". The characters produce intersections and explore their own belonging together.

"Mind Strange Brigade" movie promotional poster

"Heart Stream Experience" is the founder of positive psychology and Hungarian professor Mikhais Qikstemihayi in 1975, which describes a person who is fully investing in a pleasant and challenging When working, you lose the sense of space and time. Mikhai refers to this state as "the best experience", usually accompanied by external performance such as complete immersion, ecstasy, full of power, clear goals, courage to accept challenges, calm inner heart, and unwilling to be disturbed.

In the film, Joey's "Heart Stream Experience" was specifically manifested that he was forgetting me when he played jazz. When his fingers danced briskly on the black and white keys, the music flowed like spring water, and the breathing of the people around him seemed to be still. Joey, who devoted himself, forgot everything around, reaching the realm of almost "mega". Joey's feelings are actually the "immersive experience" that most of us have experienced -whether it is being intoxicated when listening to the moving melody, or the unspeakableness when it is indulged in the wonderful plot. "Heart flow" is a kind of Strong self -driving force and concentration guide us to devote themselves to the things we love, actively exclude external interference, and achieve the optimization of personal experience.

"Mind Strange Brigade" actor Joey played piano in love

Joy and "No. 22" virtual characters are facing the same test -"spark", which symbolizes the wonderful moments and most important things in their respective life.

At the beginning of the plot, the "No. 22" virtual figures were empty and abandoned, and even thought that life was meaningless. An accident made "No. 22" entering Joy's body and experienced his daily life for several days. After experiencing a series of trivial but warm clips, "No. 22" virtual characters suddenly realized: the so -called "spark" is not necessarily a magnificent dream and the focus of the spotlight. Cooking for chefs, or hair cutting to hair stylists, every seemingly ordinary life can live their own wonderful.

Although this is a horrible, innocent and fantasy cartoon, "Soul of the Soul" responded to the grand philosophical proposition "what is the meaning of life" with a sincere tone. By expanding the perception and understanding of the "spark" of Joy and "No. 22", the film interprets "happiness is the potential that everyone can master", and the key to opening this door of happiness is " Heart flow experience ". When we devote ourselves to a concrete and real thing and reaching enough concentration, we have gained the peace and joy of our hearts. This ability to wake up the "heart flow experience" has enabled us to continue to harvest, satisfy and hope on the long journey of life.

Author: Wu Jianqian

Beijing Today Art Museum Media Center New Media Edit

(Reprinted from this article: "Popular Science Times" 2022-6-24 (2nd edition) "Media Eye Watch the World" column)

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