Re:Homing in on the Source of Runner’s High
by hinkley on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:46PM
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I used to be a long distance bicyclist. I got my time in but nowhere near as much as you, but nobody there really experienced the high either.
What I actually experienced felt more like what we now call Flow, which is a pretty good experience by itself. Programmers seek it out almost habitually, like an addiction. I've also experienced the same thing once doing restorative Yoga (the teacher was experimenting at the end of a quarter, but I moved across town after), and maybe while doing meditation but it felt different.
I'm really curious if this is the high people mean, and those who rave about it just have a really hard time entering a flow state. If that's so then I pity them.
Thanksgiving before last this really gelled for me. I had potatoes cooling on the stove and the dog was begging for a walk so I went out with him at like 10:15 am. Runners. Everywhere runners. Then it hit me like a brick. They were all out meditating, trying to mentally prepare for the onslaught of relatives and poorly behaved nieces and nephews that were about to descend on them.
What I actually experienced felt more like what we now call Flow, which is a pretty good experience by itself. Programmers seek it out almost habitually, like an addiction. I've also experienced the same thing once doing restorative Yoga (the teacher was experimenting at the end of a quarter, but I moved across town after), and maybe while doing meditation but it felt different.
I'm really curious if this is the high people mean, and those who rave about it just have a really hard time entering a flow state. If that's so then I pity them.
Thanksgiving before last this really gelled for me. I had potatoes cooling on the stove and the dog was begging for a walk so I went out with him at like 10:15 am. Runners. Everywhere runners. Then it hit me like a brick. They were all out meditating, trying to mentally prepare for the onslaught of relatives and poorly behaved nieces and nephews that were about to descend on them.