I'll keep this short seeing as the proposal will speak for itself, but I wanted to get across why I wanted to write about Flow and the state of mind people get into when playing games. I chose the theory of flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi because out of everything it's the one thing that speaks to me most seeing as I come from a background of having metal issues as well as basically everyone I know seeing as mainly 1/4 people suffer from one thing these days.
The way that flow is understood is the balance between feeling anxious and bored. Although anxiety is caused by boredom we can agree that when put in the middle of both you enter a 'zone' where everything feels great and mellow-some. The concept behind this intrigues me dearly and I want to get a better understanding of the human physicality when playing games vs the mental or better known as 'the unconscious' by those who also have the same interest. It's something that has been theorized but never proven, hence why I will attempt in this essay to write about it and how everything not just games relate to this theory. Getting help for this essay is a must seeing as it relies mainly on psychology so no, I will not be writing this without getting sufficient research not just from theorist but by asking people who suffer from things such as anxiety and depression (the ones who actually know what it feels like to have it on a daily basis) what they believe it to be and where they sit around this theory. Not only this but it's a personal thing for myself to help me grow as a person, in a sense of understanding myself and my body (Anxieties or not) better alongside the physical and mental understandings I want to know what my 'unconsciousness' is telling me.
This proposal/essay is going to open my eyes to the world as a whole and I can't wait to get writing. This was a short piece because the essay/proposal will speak for itself on this matter.
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