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  2. Stream of consciousness (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Early Buddhist scriptures describe the "stream of consciousness" (Pali; viññāna-sota) where it is referred to as the Mind Stream. [6] [7] [8] The practice of mindfulness, which is about being aware moment-to-moment of one's subjective conscious experience [9] aid one to directly experience the "stream of consciousness" and to gradually cultivate self-knowledge and wisdom. [6]

  3. Stream of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Stream of consciousness is a literary method of representing the flow of a character's thoughts and sense impressions "usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue." While many sources use the terms stream of consciousness and interior monologue as synonyms, the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms suggests that "they can ...

  4. Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Flow is the melting together of action and consciousness; the state of finding a balance between a skill and how challenging that task is. It requires a high level of concentration. Flow is used as a coping skill for stress and anxiety when productively pursuing a form of leisure that matches one's skill set. [2]

  5. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Shqip; Simple English ... Representation of consciousness from the 17th century by Robert Fludd, ... is more predictive of conscious awareness than a "bottom-up" flow ...

  6. Mindstream - Wikipedia

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    Citta-saṃtāna (Sanskrit), literally "the stream of mind", [4] is the continuum, succession, or flow of succeeding moments of mind or awareness. It provides a continuity of mentation in the absence of a permanently abiding "self" ( ātman ), which Buddhism denies.

  7. Syncope (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Syncope ((syncope ⓘ), commonly known as fainting or passing out, is a loss of consciousness and muscle strength characterized by a fast onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery. [1] It is caused by a decrease in blood flow to the brain, typically from low blood pressure. [1]

  8. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia

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    loss of self-consciousness; autotelic experience; To achieve a flow state, a balance must be struck between the challenge of the task and the skill of the performer. [20] If the task is too easy or too difficult, flow cannot occur as both skill level and challenge level must be matched and high; if skill and challenge are low and matched ...

  9. Category:Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: subjectivity , awareness , sentience , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood , and the executive control system of the mind.