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higher factor dimensions. From above results, it is clear that meditation flow experience can
provide people with a higher spiritual level of well-being.
Keywords: Meditation, Flow Experience, Well-being
Introduction
After the Industrial Revolution, due to the fast change of science and technology, the social
structure, the cultural system and economic activity's fast vicissitude, creates the greatest
pressure and astatic for human in psychology and the physiology aspects. All sorts difficult
living , such as anxious, phenomena and losing sleep, causes the damage to the health of
human body and mind directly, subsequently produces “the diseases of civilization”, lets the
human live in the pain and is unhappy everyday. The Taiwan suicide mortality rate has
become one of the top ten reasons to cause death in these continues eight years. Using 2007 as
the example, the people died from the suicide as high as 3,933 people, and the pressure was
the principal factors to cause the death. The pressure has become one of the attribute to
threaten the human body and mind and the peace of social (Robinson & Godbey, 1997;
Zuzanek & Smale, 1997; McBride-King & Bachmann, 1999). Because the leisure activity
may enhance individual sense of self determination and the society supports, can adjust the
life pressure effectively (Coleman & Iso-Ahola,1993). Hull(1990) thought that the leisure
activity may promote the positive mood which influences the health. Pargament(1997) also
pointed out that people's intelligence strength and the mind health was the main resource to
relieve the negative effect from the time pressure, included physical and psychological
aspects.
In recent years, “the meditation” in Taiwan becomes one of the leisure activities to relieve the
pressure. The imperial sacrifices repair activity promotes the health and the psychological
balance by sitting still which includes adjusting the body, breathing and heart. Sitting still
may help individual to reduce rigid, make the brain calmer and clearer, achieve tranquilly
dedicated intrinsic wholly-attention, then has the wisdom and develop individual potential,
and truly feel the original main body of individual . Using the self-restraint and the selfcontrol
from the meditation, lets the meditation’s “engages in introspection sees the nature”,
enable the society to become a wise and the creativity beautiful world.
The Meditation is not only one of the religious activities, also can eliminate the pressure from
the life, promote the health and promote the intrinsic virtue of patience, and the meditation is
also an important leisure activity which can let people enjoy the happiness from the
meditation. The core value of leisure activity is to provide people the happy experience, and at
the same time leisure is also the key activities which the populace regulate their life and the
well being is the ultimate objective which the populace always try to achieve. What kind of
experience does the meditation provide to the people? Do those activities experience can
provide people the well-being? The questions above are the key elements whether meditation
can become important health leisure activity to the populace, and they are also the important
topic for this research project.
Literature Review
The meditation flow experience
The meditation flow experience is that when people are doing some kind of activities or the
work, they pay the centralized attention, and completely invest in the situation, and remove
all the other senses which are not related to the activity, is one kind of meditation flow
experience (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). The meditation flow experience can cause individual to
be immersed in some kind of activity completely, and disregard the other conditions, and this
kind of experience brings the greatest joy to people. After the meditation flow experience