In music, flow is usually associated with rhythm.
The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) does not include the term flow . It is an English word that can be translated into Spanish as "flow" or "flow" , although in certain areas it is used directly in its original version.
In the field of music , especially in rap, the idea of flow refers to the rhythm , cadence or speed of a performer when reciting or singing. Whoever has flow, "feels" the music and manages to transmit, both with his voice and with his body, those sensations or emotions.
Flow in psychology and economics
For psychology , flow is the state that an individual reaches when they are totally focused on the enjoyment of the activity they are doing . In this way, your actions and thoughts flow without pause.
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi was the one who coined the idea of flow. This psychologist refers in this way to what happens when the person leaves the ego aside, loses perception of time and is absorbed in what he or she does because it generates satisfaction.
Cash flow , on the other hand, is an expression used in economics to refer to cash income and expenditure in a certain period. The analysis of this cash flow allows us to warn if a company has liquidity problems (lack of cash) and to know how profitable a business is.
Psychology links flow to full enjoyment.
Uses in the technological and business field
In addition to everything indicated, we cannot ignore what is known as Flowchart. Specifically, this term refers to what is known in Spanish as a flow chart , which is used in different disciplines with the clear objective of visually and simply representing the different phases of a process, for example .
In the same way, we cannot ignore the existence of a smartphone app that goes by the name of Polar Flow. It is very useful to use when exercising, since it allows you to control the different training parameters. We are referring to aspects such as duration, calories lost, distance traveled….
The word flow also appears in the name of numerous services , brands and companies: the Flow Sports television channel, the Cablevisión Flow digital platform, the Microsoft Flow computer service, etc.
The queen of flow, a television proposal
Of course, we cannot forget the existence of a television series that uses the term in question in its title. We are referring to "La Reina del Flow", which is of Colombian origin and which aired on Caracol Televisión in 2018.
This fictional production has a season of 82 episodes, created by Andrés Salgado and Said Chamie, which takes as its protagonist a young composer named Yeimy Montoya who will suffer her parents being murdered, who will see all her compositions disappear when they are stolen. his notebook and that, due to a mere deception, he will end up in jail. Seventeen years after entering prison, the woman, played by María José Vargas, will emerge from it and will do so willing to take revenge on those who betrayed her.