Mırkwood Kındred
Dark Forest Tribes • ΣΔΦ
☸︎ Zùn Ablu Mɛcɔ́tɔ́ (Fon)
☸︎ Igbo Okunkun Oluso (Yorùbá)
☸︎ Gardien de la Forêt Sombre (Française)
☸︎ Msitu wa Giza Walinzi (Kiswahili)
☸︎ حارس الغابة المظلمة /Haris Alghabat Almuzlimati (Arabic)
☸︎ Myrkvíður Vörður eða Varðstjóri (Old Norse/Icelandic)
Six Factors Of Flow
Instead of an exclusive focus on competitive target shooting and game hunting, we propose an extension of mind-body meditation inspired in part by the Japanese martial art of Kyūdō (弓道).
At the root of this Zen of archery is the psychological state of “flow”, of “being in the zone”, a setting free of one’s mind from distracting thoughts and feelings. This effortless state of “no mind” is widely cultivated by artists, poets, craftsmen, performers, and trained martial artists, who may or may not be associated with Buddhism or Daoism, and as such, may have any religious connotations at all.
It is a state of being when we are psychologically so at one with our art, that the body naturally, spontaneously responds to the challenge before us without deliberation.
Researchers Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow.
- The sense of personal control, of complete agency over the situation
- Intense, focus, concentration on the present moment
- The perception of altered time, of time distortion
- A suspension of self-reflection, of self-consciousness
- Merging of awareness and action
- Autotelic experience, a sense of intrinsic reward
Those aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience, and it is through this art and science of mind and body, a whole greater than the sum of its parts is achieved.
Let this be the science of our tradition:
To Optimize Human Strengths ― Accommodate Human Limitations
