Is ‘flow’ pleasant?

There are those days where you seem to go like a rocket. You have somehow gone out of your own way, and everything is going smooth, easy, you hardly have to think while doing things, inspiration is there at the right moment, etc. On those days you can do a great amount of work. What it is that you do during moments like these, is that your personality obviously has a less prominent role in what happens, and you have opened up more to what is happening in the moment itself and go with that. A popular word for this experience is 'flow', and you experience this as pleasant, since it comes closer to experiencing your inner Self.

The good part of this is, that you have a tremendous amount of energy left (which normally was usurped by your personality for his approach and focus). At the end of for example the (working) day you now are not tired at all, you are still in a pleasant state of alertness. The unpleasant part here is, that especially at the end of the day, there are no more things to do to keep the 'flow' going. There simply is nothing or less to do. And there you find yourself stuck with your alertness on one hand - not yet tired, mentally fresh -. And with a personality who still has an urgent need to go over everything that happened that day in which he was not involved as usual, and wants to put it into his perspective. Consequence? Your personality now uses the mental energy and space you got left in full for his process, so it is likely that you find your thoughts run at full speed, and it takes quite a while before you are tired of this, both experience wise and literally. Now this you are likely to experience as not pleasant.

Is there an alternative? You could attempt to calm down your personality and tell him that you will make mental space available later or at a different moment. You could also opt for very consciously perceiving what happens and see that the mechanism does work as described here. However, in the long run it is about letting go of your need to uphold a worldview through and role for your personality, then you no longer need any time and mental space to do so either.

You are likely to notice a likewise process as well when you go through a very busy period of the day, so busy that your personality has only little time left to go over what is happening at the moment itself and label everything as 'safe' and 'good'. This too you will then do afterwards, which will cause the same experience of being very busy mentally.