{"id":58798,"date":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/state-of-flow-autotelic-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","slug":"state-of-flow-autotelic-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/state-of-flow-autotelic-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"State of flow (autotelic experience)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a state of full involvement in the activity, when a person feels as focused as possible, energetic and satisfied; an activity that is done not for the sake of reward, but for the sake of itself. Autotelic experience, or the state of flow, raises the personality to a qualitatively different level. Alienation gives way to infatuation, boredom is replaced by joy, helplessness turns into a sense of one&#8217;s own power. Psychic energy is no longer wasted on external goals, but contributes to the strengthening of one&#8217;s own &#8220;I&#8221;. When a feeling of inner satisfaction arises, a person begins to appreciate the present and ceases to be a hostage of a bright future. The author of the term: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (see Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1934-2021) in Chapter 5: Famous Scientists, Their Scientific Schools and Organizations in Psychological Science).       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a state of full involvement in the activity, when a person feels as focused as possible, energetic and satisfied; an activity that is done not for the sake of reward, but for the sake of itself. Autotelic experience, or the state of flow, raises the personality to a qualitatively different level. Alienation gives way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-positive-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}