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mindflow en · NOUN

Etymology

From mind + flow.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The flow, course, progression, or outflow of one's thinking or thoughts; thought-process.
   • From the above we can say that every professional practice coalesces around a mindflow and a resulting default pattern in looking at the world – a mindset. 2012, Charles Landry, The Art of City Making:
   • But at last, I know not how the mind-flow drifted to it, our discourse turned on the modern English literature, to keep pace […] 1845, Emma Robinson, Whitehall:
   • Aware of his ambivalence about "mindflow," and Kerouac's writing in particular (which Terry finds "cloyingly sentimental"), Krassner quizzed Terry on the Beat scene: […] 2004, Nile Southern, The Candy Men:
   • In mindfulness training, the key is for the meditator to notice the direction of the mind flow in every moment and redirect it when it's moving toward unwholesomeness. 2009, Ronald Alexander, Lama Surya Das, Wise Mind, Open Mind:
   • Freedom would therefore consist in perfect control of the mind-flow as to where it shall go or whether it shall go anywhere. 1917, Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley, Theosophical path:

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Relateds

mindshift · mindset