Makes sense. I've been doing this for a while now, it helps a lot with all kinds of runaway emotions and stupid thoughts. You just have to learn how to shut your active thinking down and detach from emotions and automatic thoughts going on in your mind. Kind of like an internal reset button, just push it again and again. Getting anxious? Reset. Doubting yourself? Reset. Overrun by an emotion? Detach and reset. Very helpful, and keeps you grounded where you are. It's a skill anyone can learn.
Some would say the need to constantly reset yourself can be tiresome and without actually confronting your issues and finding the root causes, all you are doing is avoiding. I realize this is a tradeoff. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
rockersamurai It's actually the opposite. Freaking out on stuff and letting your emotions run rampant on you, well that's what's really tiring! Plus it's not all or nothing anyway, I ponder on different issues / problems all the time as that's something that interests me. Still, a part of that is also getting some mental space during the day, i.e. resetting my head, and especially if there comes an upset of some kind. I can still function and do something about a problem, but it has less power over me since I can just let the too frenzied thoughts and emotions slide off of me and spin on their own. That's the automatic mind doing its own stuff, I don't have to get involved if I don't want to...and it's usually more peaceful that way.
Do you mind sharing how you learned to achieve this? It sounds very interesting. I guess meditation is a good way but I dont really know. Share your knowledge :)
I wish he mentioned how to actually trigger it. Flow comes naturally a lot of the time depending on what needs to get done but if we can find a way to activate it on demand then that'll be incredibly useful.
WOW!!! That explains it!!! As a one-man band, people often ask, "How do you play so many instruments at the same time?!?!?!" I explain that once I trained my individual body parts to play their assigned instruments, it really became a matter of simply "shutting down my brain and getting out of my own way." Now, my best performances occur when I am NOT thinking but simply enjoying and feeling the music. Transient Hypofrontality explains this process AND why "time flies" when I'm "in the zone". On top of that, finding out that it also explains the "religious experience" of transcendence...Mind Blown! SO COOL!!!
I'm getting goosebumps! For someone that experience lucid dream since childhood (and love science), I always wonders about how the perception of time. Especially in dreams, because it feels so long yet it is short.
This video has drastically opened my eyes. I now feel like I have something to go back to. Something to yearn for. The flow state has become my lifeline. Just knowing that it's possible gives me something to yearn for.
This is great! I experienced it when I drew for assignments in college, in a potential car accident & in a morning jog. I'm guessing when he says "jazz artists" & "rappers" he's talking about in the moment of "improvisation" & "freestyling". Thank you for the explanation.
One day humanity will come full circle and the detailed, objective, quantifying, systematic method of poking and prodding the universe will become one with the big-picture, subjective (spiritual), qualifying, intuitive way of grasping reality, and we will start our ascend to becoming the gods of this universe... if humanity survives long enough, and we aren't squashed by our extra-terrestrial competitors. ;)
A Zen master visiting New York City goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything." The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a $20 bill. The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. "Excuse me, but where’s my change?" asks the Zen master. The vendor responds, "Change must come from within."
thank you for this. For over twenty years, I have been trying to learn about the physical processes behind the massively disruptive "mystical" experiences I've had.
It's interesting that this process describes what happens to me when I'm riding my motorbike. Often when I take my race bike to the track (away from all the crazy car drivers that are trying to kill me) I almost transform into this state where I'm literally thinking about nothing. The exact best way to describe it is I get into this flow where I don't make inputs into the bike the bike and I just almost float together around the track. Usually my lap times are way better when I get into this relaxed state where I'm not even thinking about riding the bike... It is a brilliant sensation and the most relaxed I become in my daily life.
I had not realized that the time dilation effect was a function of the flow state. I thought it was a trained reaction to my Tai-Chi, practising in "slow motion" such that when push came to shove and I had to move fast, my brain would switch into slow-mo perception mode, because that's how I trained. Clearly I need to do a bit more homework.
"Slowing down your brain to a point is where things actually come into focus and you get a secret peek into the inner workings of the problem. Sort of like slowing down a film so you can digest what's in each frame. When you can slow down a problem to it's most intimate details you only then you can appreciate how guys like Einstein, Marconi and Tesla make great discoveries. I call this 3D Virtual Reality Mind Experiment. Your not slowing down time. Your just using an intellectual micron microscope to look a problem. When you can do this, you'll be amazed what you'll see that wasn't visible before." Thomas M. Dutkiewicz, Experimental Physicist
+Heidi HOW TO if you'd argue that then u best take that argument up with the dude in this clip, bc that's precisely what he's saying they're seeing - that in these states of mind parts of the pre frontal corex slow down or shut off temporarily.
A superb video. It very much is in alignment with creative process like composing or improvising. Many of my experiences in life support what is said in this video. (including time stretching in car crashes!) Please don't stop here, continue to develop this!
When I focus high at something time is slowing.I can see and notice tiny details that other ones can't see and when I work on something it seems to me that working tooks hours and hours but it tooks so much less.
One thing that always relaxes me is to walk on a treadmill with the gradient up a bit, at a very slow pace, a pace that would be hard to maintain so slowly continuously without the help of a measured treadmill (because often in rush or moving from one place to another in a state of haste, or from getting intense exercise). When I do this I will hold light weights (making graceful slow arm movements in sync with treadmill tempo), breathe deeply, take long strides, many times do it barefoot, and get plenty of stretching of the upper body when doing it, and also do backwards walking and turning to improve balance and activate different muscles in quads and glutes.This slowing of my body relaxes me,oxygenates me and helps me to coordinate and connect with my body in a mindful and fluid way that almost feels like tai chi or dance.It creates a satisfying metabolic warmth in my body and also slows my mind and puts me in a content state of flow. I find it is good to do these workouts for at least 35 minutes or more very slowly.
Playing MOBA games puts me in flow, some times during tense moments one fight slows right down, and although most of the games go for 40 minutes, it feels more like 5.
Singing, whistling or humming a consistent tune are a few ways of releasing and detaching from over active-troubling thoughts. Lots of scientific research has shown a relationship between singing and deep meditation.
Reading the comments on here many are asking how to quiet the mind. 1) Step away to a quiet place - it could be shutting yourself indoors, waking an hour early, or heading to a beach, a hotel, a lake or river...anywhere you can be alone and quiet. 2) NO CELLPHONES - turn them off. 3) Just breathe to begin with, pay attention to your breathing. 4) Journal your thoughts... if you really want to, otherwise be still and enjoy the quiet moment.
This may be a stupid question but: if one learns to slow down his brain (as he puts it), shouldn't that also help persons with panic attacks or anxiety issues. Because usually these attacks put you in a mode where you achieve only very little or nothing at all because you are too stressed out and occupied with a flood of thoughts.
when i was playing my last football game(soccer) the opposite team was good....they were playing sharp passes and hardly let us keep ball possession for more than half minute....they dominated game and i was so nervous and frustrated that every time i received the ball i would loose it due to nervousness....i was afraid that i will loose the ball every time their player charged on me.... it reminded me the day when i started training with big guys and i decided to stay calm whenever i get the ball...i told my team mate the same thing....i told my mates that we have already lost the game and only thing in second half we can do is play the game and not let them humiliate us....this thing worked we scored twice and almost won the game that we lost in first 20 minutes
When I used to take Aniracetam this is how I felt. Like I could sense things broader than just in the moment. Everything I was doing felt past present and future.
A lot of people didn't seem to understand this video, and are conflating the state of Flow with mindfulness. Flow is a mental state that high performers (e.g musicians, athletes, meditation practitioners etc) enter when performing a skill they are adept at [This is background info that was not explained in the video -- you can search for Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for more info]. The video claims that the state of Flow is actually "transient hypofrontality", which means portions of the brain (usually the frontal lobe) shut down, and this explains the subjective experiences of Flow (and presumably the objective elements which the guy talked about in the beginning, such as notable increases in performance indicators). Mindfulness in everyday life is great, but this video had nothing to do with it.
I've got the opposite problem - hyperactivity/trying to do too much. What are some examples of everyday situations, or actions taken that help put one in this state of mind at work?
If our perception of the universe (whether we are "Separate" or "One" with the universe) is determined by part of our brain turning on and off, how would we know which perception is "Reality" and which is just an illusion?
If you have flow that you really want in your life, spend lots of time tripping about it. The more you trip the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is trippy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "trip mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower. A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond. All sorts of dreams are possible. The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail. Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and trip it, in the laboratory of our minds. A vision is a very trippy image, the most trippy image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.
Turn a metronome on or drum beat at 60 bpm and sing songs to that beat and it gets you in the zone, deep breaths and long intervals quiet to loud back to quiet intervals (do re mi etc..) 4-8 beats per not, or sing a beatles song or Dylan song or whatever at 60 bpm while strum the chords and really sing out. Another thing get on a tread mill put the gradient up high and the speed very low, like a speed slower than is easy to naturally walk continuously, and just walk and breath deeply, take big steps lift legs stretch arms, get creative like do pivots, walk backwards on the treadmill (carefully)..listen to headphones.
Anyone know what the nameof the video is thats animated amd describes the distracting flow of thoughts as being a stream and you lay next to it and watch them float by?
M. Strain Jr. How I fall into that state is this: take a day where you do not have to meet anyone else's expectations, that there's absolutely nothing you expect to come in and ruin your day. I think it is absolutely impossible to fall into flow if you are stressed. Then, based on what you decide to do, get in an environment you're at your best for accomplishing that activity. For example, I find I fall really easily into flow when I go to my brother's place. We both work quietly on our own stuff. Some activities are better for entering into flow than others. I find enjoyable problem solving activities to be best. Something you can feel really good about yourself if you accomplish it. Again, for me, I've enjoyed programming, or working on a startup really rewarding. And I think it helps a lot if the reward you're looking for comes from within instead of someone else's approval. Anyway, that's my stream of thought on the subject.
***** You read too much Eckhart Tolle bro. M. Strain Jr. Then why the fuck are you ranting about how he doesn't tell you how to reach a flow state? Stupid people everywhere.
Pick up a book on Vipassana meditation. I recommend "Mindfulness In Plain English". And cut out the junk food. What you're asking is simple, but it is the essence of every human's search for happiness. So bon voyage, my friend.
Realize that everything that happens is only a perception of reality that is translated, to you, by your brain. If you understand this, and realize that life (to you) without you is nothing. Numb the voice inside your head and the irrational thoughts. Take control of your own brain.
So playing an MMO for 12h strait, completly loosing yourself to it(players will hopefully nod at this and agree, but).. Is a hyperstate of the brain where we feel amazing.. .. awesome!
For ADHD, dyslexia, mind racing, one group of schizophrenia, the inverted yoga poses will cure them. The poses are sarvangasana,sirasasana,halasana,ardha sirasasana,camel pose,chakrasana,viparidhakarani. There exist science behind this. Please convey this to all who needs recovery
A lack of an anatomical definition for a feeling doesn't make it any less real. Respect for the "scientific community" for bringing light to a lack of a biological understanding brought about by the "hippie or spiritual community", but it's still all the same. Just a different perception.
Very interesting, especially when considering information processing in creativity , but i dont think you can reduce the transcendental experience one has with activated/deactivated parts of the brain.. correlate yes it seems so, but you cant pin it to the activity itself..
If they’ve only consulted the United States and Europe, how can they possibly be getting the full scope of ideas on this topic? There are so many indigenous communities and schools of thought that contain answers to questions that maybe this Euro-centric community never even thought to ask.
This is the shit. I've experienced it while playing basketball, freestyle rapping, during sex...I'm so glad our brains have such a functional capacity and I can willingly induce it. Ah yeah!
Sense of self? Nope. That is EVER present. If you mean the dialogue associated with self and the narrative of personhood? Sometimes, but it just doesn't distract me. It becomes a piece of scenery in my consciousness. I meditate pretty much daily and have been intensely for at least two years. I've found no greater foothold on performance than meditation, proper cardiovascular health, proper plant diet, instrument playing, singing, sexual control, and extreme dedication to results.
Wow I read the comments. People are really confused about flow. Just think about performance, or.. Being in the zone. I dunno, it's hard to explain. And apparently describing it scientifically isn't helping either. I sure that anyone who practices an art, does a lot of work on...stuff that takes long... Or competes at something should know what it's like to just feel the flow. One guy in the comments mentioned playing. Moba. I'll say it for fighting games and drawing.
He didn't give any tips on how to slow the brain down. Just kept on blabbering about neuroscience and the research. This concept of time passing slowly in the NOW STATE has been spoken about in the VEDAS for centuries.
Single Task on 1 thing at a time. That brings about the focused flow state. It calms the brain down because you aren't perpetually 'switching' between a billion different things. I caught this in the first 19 seconds of the talk.
Although it might sound crazy to some, when I start thinking to much or when my mind feels sluggish and "lost" I usually take a deep breath and let out a quick but loud yell. A deep yell though from your balls (courtesy of Elliott Hulse). It clears my mind and I am instantly more focused on whatever it is I'm doing, especially exercise
It's about getting in "the zone", and what happens to the brain while in the zone. Get his book. It's too complicated to explain what he's discovered in a comment or few.
When he says you only use 10% of your brain, could this be because whenever we gather data of brain activity, each participant is aware they are being experimented or watched?
Isn`t this concept more for sports instead of academics? Because academic actually require thinking, not doing things without thinking. I am not scientific person, so I do not know any of these knowledges. I am however very curious about these kinds of topics, so would anyone answer this question for me please?
You could produce alot and increase your own life expectancy in theory. But in modern everyday situations this ain't going to benefit anyone. improvisation is a fundament that is under-threat could be like a sacrifice just preparing you if you'd ever go ahead with something as tranquil as meditation
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Makes sense. I've been doing this for a while now, it helps a lot with all kinds of runaway emotions and stupid thoughts. You just have to learn how to shut your active thinking down and detach from emotions and automatic thoughts going on in your mind. Kind of like an internal reset button, just push it again and again. Getting anxious? Reset. Doubting yourself? Reset. Overrun by an emotion? Detach and reset. Very helpful, and keeps you grounded where you are. It's a skill anyone can learn.
Some would say the need to constantly reset yourself can be tiresome and without actually confronting your issues and finding the root causes, all you are doing is avoiding. I realize this is a tradeoff. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
rockersamurai It's actually the opposite. Freaking out on stuff and letting your emotions run rampant on you, well that's what's really tiring! Plus it's not all or nothing anyway, I ponder on different issues / problems all the time as that's something that interests me. Still, a part of that is also getting some mental space during the day, i.e. resetting my head, and especially if there comes an upset of some kind. I can still function and do something about a problem, but it has less power over me since I can just let the too frenzied thoughts and emotions slide off of me and spin on their own. That's the automatic mind doing its own stuff, I don't have to get involved if I don't want to...and it's usually more peaceful that way.
I know just what you mean
Do you mind sharing how you learned to achieve this? It sounds very interesting. I guess meditation is a good way but I dont really know. Share your knowledge :)
how do you do it? if you don't mind me asking,
I wish he mentioned how to actually trigger it. Flow comes naturally a lot of the time depending on what needs to get done but if we can find a way to activate it on demand then that'll be incredibly useful.
WOW!!! That explains it!!! As a one-man band, people often ask, "How do you play so many instruments at the same time?!?!?!" I explain that once I trained my individual body parts to play their assigned instruments, it really became a matter of simply "shutting down my brain and getting out of my own way." Now, my best performances occur when I am NOT thinking but simply enjoying and feeling the music.
Transient Hypofrontality explains this process AND why "time flies" when I'm "in the zone".
On top of that, finding out that it also explains the "religious experience" of transcendence...Mind Blown!
SO COOL!!!
I'm getting goosebumps! For someone that experience lucid dream since childhood (and love science), I always wonders about how the perception of time. Especially in dreams, because it feels so long yet it is short.
This video has drastically opened my eyes. I now feel like I have something to go back to. Something to yearn for. The flow state has become my lifeline. Just knowing that it's possible gives me something to yearn for.
This is great! I experienced it when I drew for assignments in college, in a potential car accident & in a morning jog. I'm guessing when he says "jazz artists" & "rappers" he's talking about in the moment of "improvisation" & "freestyling". Thank you for the explanation.
FINALLYYYYYY someone is putting together the pieces :) i am excited for humanity to come out of its baby stage
You mean our "mammalian' stage
lol wut
Golden era is here
We meet again.
One day humanity will come full circle and the detailed, objective, quantifying, systematic method of poking and prodding the universe will become one with the big-picture, subjective (spiritual), qualifying, intuitive way of grasping reality, and we will start our ascend to becoming the gods of this universe...
if humanity survives long enough, and we aren't squashed by our extra-terrestrial competitors.
;)
A Zen master visiting New York City goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a $20 bill.
The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. "Excuse me, but where’s my change?" asks the Zen master.
The vendor responds, "Change must come from within."
And I thought this was going to be about becoming one with everything😂
thank you for this. For over twenty years, I have been trying to learn about the physical processes behind the massively disruptive "mystical" experiences I've had.
Flow since age four. I love my brain. Thank you for this video.
It's interesting that this process describes what happens to me when I'm riding my motorbike. Often when I take my race bike to the track (away from all the crazy car drivers that are trying to kill me) I almost transform into this state where I'm literally thinking about nothing. The exact best way to describe it is I get into this flow where I don't make inputs into the bike the bike and I just almost float together around the track. Usually my lap times are way better when I get into this relaxed state where I'm not even thinking about riding the bike... It is a brilliant sensation and the most relaxed I become in my daily life.
This is why meditation is vital. I've written the dopest song of my life right after I mediated, and it came so easily.
I had not realized that the time dilation effect was a function of the flow state. I thought it was a trained reaction to my Tai-Chi, practising in "slow motion" such that when push came to shove and I had to move fast, my brain would switch into slow-mo perception mode, because that's how I trained. Clearly I need to do a bit more homework.
Doesn't mean your training didn't come handy. Pretty sure you are better at entering in your Flow State than most people around.
"Slowing down your brain to a point is where things actually come into focus and you get a secret peek into the inner workings of the problem. Sort of like slowing down a film so you can digest what's in each frame. When you can slow down a problem to it's most intimate details you only then you can appreciate how guys like Einstein, Marconi and Tesla make great discoveries. I call this 3D Virtual Reality Mind Experiment. Your not slowing down time. Your just using an intellectual micron microscope to look a problem. When you can do this, you'll be amazed what you'll see that wasn't visible before."
Thomas M. Dutkiewicz, Experimental Physicist
I'd argue that you see things slowed down cause your brain is running faster?
+Heidi HOW TO if you'd argue that then u best take that argument up with the dude in this clip, bc that's precisely what he's saying they're seeing - that in these states of mind parts of the pre frontal corex slow down or shut off temporarily.
A superb video. It very much is in alignment with creative process like composing or improvising. Many of my experiences in life support what is said in this video. (including time stretching in car crashes!)
Please don't stop here, continue to develop this!
When I focus high at something time is slowing.I can see and notice tiny details that other ones can't see and when I work on something it seems to me that working tooks hours and hours but it tooks so much less.
One thing that always relaxes me is to walk on a treadmill with the gradient up a bit, at a very slow pace, a pace that would be hard to maintain so slowly continuously without the help of a measured treadmill (because often in rush or moving from one place to another in a state of haste, or from getting intense exercise). When I do this I will hold light weights (making graceful slow arm movements in sync with treadmill tempo), breathe deeply, take long strides, many times do it barefoot, and get plenty of stretching of the upper body when doing it, and also do backwards walking and turning to improve balance and activate different muscles in quads and glutes.This slowing of my body relaxes me,oxygenates me and helps me to coordinate and connect with my body in a mindful and fluid way that almost feels like tai chi or dance.It creates a satisfying metabolic warmth in my body and also slows my mind and puts me in a content state of flow. I find it is good to do these workouts for at least 35 minutes or more very slowly.
Thank you Steven Kotler! This was very valuable information for me. I will be following your work.
There is the feeling of feeling ONE with everything, but then there is the feeling of realizing how and why.
Playing MOBA games puts me in flow, some times during tense moments one fight slows right down, and although most of the games go for 40 minutes, it feels more like 5.
Singing, whistling or humming a consistent tune are a few ways of releasing and detaching from over active-troubling thoughts. Lots of scientific research has shown a relationship between singing and deep meditation.
Reading the comments on here many are asking how to quiet the mind. 1) Step away to a quiet place - it could be shutting yourself indoors, waking an hour early, or heading to a beach, a hotel, a lake or river...anywhere you can be alone and quiet. 2) NO CELLPHONES - turn them off. 3) Just breathe to begin with, pay attention to your breathing. 4) Journal your thoughts... if you really want to, otherwise be still and enjoy the quiet moment.
This may be a stupid question but: if one learns to slow down his brain (as he puts it), shouldn't that also help persons with panic attacks or anxiety issues. Because usually these attacks put you in a mode where you achieve only very little or nothing at all because you are too stressed out and occupied with a flood of thoughts.
You were definitely in the flow when you filmed this. Great video.
when i was playing my last football game(soccer) the opposite team was good....they were playing sharp passes and hardly let us keep ball possession for more than half minute....they dominated game and i was so nervous and frustrated that every time i received the ball i would loose it due to nervousness....i was afraid that i will loose the ball every time their player charged on me.... it reminded me the day when i started training with big guys and i decided to stay calm whenever i get the ball...i told my team mate the same thing....i told my mates that we have already lost the game and only thing in second half we can do is play the game and not let them humiliate us....this thing worked we scored twice and almost won the game that we lost in first 20 minutes
Hi Brad. Thanks for your advice.
this video was very helpful. thanks a lot.
When I used to take Aniracetam this is how I felt. Like I could sense things broader than just in the moment. Everything I was doing felt past present and future.
Let there be light!!!!! Lovin it!!
"If you've seen the Matrix, or been in a car crash" lol
A lot of people didn't seem to understand this video, and are conflating the state of Flow with mindfulness.
Flow is a mental state that high performers (e.g musicians, athletes, meditation practitioners etc) enter when performing a skill they are adept at [This is background info that was not explained in the video -- you can search for Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for more info].
The video claims that the state of Flow is actually "transient hypofrontality", which means portions of the brain (usually the frontal lobe) shut down, and this explains the subjective experiences of Flow (and presumably the objective elements which the guy talked about in the beginning, such as notable increases in performance indicators).
Mindfulness in everyday life is great, but this video had nothing to do with it.
I prefer to be in the forefront of my mind. My thoughts of been scattered lately, but I do understand operating in the forefront of my brain.
Love this guy, he doesn't yell at you
This was very interesting and informative! One thing: how can one talk for nearly five minutes about Flow without mentioning Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?!
I'm pretty sure he does in his book "West of Jesus," which is a lovely read and what has me here looking at his videos.
So how do you enter flow state?
Absolutely fascinating.
Happens to me way too much, I sit down to study and can just watch the minutes go like seconds.
I've got the opposite problem - hyperactivity/trying to do too much. What are some examples of everyday situations, or actions taken that help put one in this state of mind at work?
If our perception of the universe (whether we are "Separate" or "One" with the universe) is determined by part of our brain turning on and off, how would we know which perception is "Reality" and which is just an illusion?
All that moves is illusion, only that which is still is real. Check out Walter Russell at philosophy.org
Shoutout for all you creative people
Holy shit, that figuratively blew my mind!
Finally heard some credible stuff..thanks sir
A good scientific explanation of meditation and mindfulness. 🙂
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Very interesting and informative.
Omg you just basically answered life!
If you have flow that you really want in your life, spend lots of time tripping about it. The more you trip the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is trippy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "trip mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.
A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond.
All sorts of dreams are possible.
The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.
Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and trip it, in the laboratory of our minds.
A vision is a very trippy image, the most trippy image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.
Gotta love flow
Turn a metronome on or drum beat at 60 bpm and sing songs to that beat and it gets you in the zone, deep breaths and long intervals quiet to loud back to quiet intervals (do re mi etc..) 4-8 beats per not, or sing a beatles song or Dylan song or whatever at 60 bpm while strum the chords and really sing out.
Another thing get on a tread mill put the gradient up high and the speed very low, like a speed slower than is easy to naturally walk continuously, and just walk and breath deeply, take big steps lift legs stretch arms, get creative like do pivots, walk backwards on the treadmill (carefully)..listen to headphones.
Listened to him on Chris Ryan's podcast. One smart bastard.
wow. This fucking guy just blew my mind.
Does Xanax help shut of the frontal cortex and put one into a deeper relaxation?
Anyone know what the nameof the video is thats animated amd describes the distracting flow of thoughts as being a stream and you lay next to it and watch them float by?
Did he explain how to get into this state or did I miss it?
Great, now how do I get this to happen within my brain?
M. Strain Jr. How I fall into that state is this: take a day where you do not have to meet anyone else's expectations, that there's absolutely nothing you expect to come in and ruin your day. I think it is absolutely impossible to fall into flow if you are stressed. Then, based on what you decide to do, get in an environment you're at your best for accomplishing that activity. For example, I find I fall really easily into flow when I go to my brother's place. We both work quietly on our own stuff. Some activities are better for entering into flow than others. I find enjoyable problem solving activities to be best. Something you can feel really good about yourself if you accomplish it. Again, for me, I've enjoyed programming, or working on a startup really rewarding. And I think it helps a lot if the reward you're looking for comes from within instead of someone else's approval.
Anyway, that's my stream of thought on the subject.
M. Strain Jr. How about reading the book, that all of this is based on? Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
***** You read too much Eckhart Tolle bro.
M. Strain Jr. Then why the fuck are you ranting about how he doesn't tell you how to reach a flow state? Stupid people everywhere.
Pick up a book on Vipassana meditation. I recommend "Mindfulness In Plain English". And cut out the junk food. What you're asking is simple, but it is the essence of every human's search for happiness. So bon voyage, my friend.
Realize that everything that happens is only a perception of reality that is translated, to you, by your brain. If you understand this, and realize that life (to you) without you is nothing. Numb the voice inside your head and the irrational thoughts. Take control of your own brain.
So playing an MMO for 12h strait, completly loosing yourself to it(players will hopefully nod at this and agree, but)..
Is a hyperstate of the brain where we feel amazing..
.. awesome!
Hmmm..is that flow? Or is that being immersed...or maby both?
cool. edit, amazing.
For ADHD, dyslexia, mind racing, one group of schizophrenia, the inverted yoga poses will cure them. The poses are sarvangasana,sirasasana,halasana,ardha sirasasana,camel pose,chakrasana,viparidhakarani. There exist science behind this. Please convey this to all who needs recovery
how do you we get to that state now!
It would have been really nice if he showed us how to do this
Amazing.
So how can I shut down prefrontal cortex manually?
Oh yeah! I know flow!
What would be the effcts of permanent hypofrontality?
Pearl Jam wrote about this too. "Even Flow"
A lack of an anatomical definition for a feeling doesn't make it any less real. Respect for the "scientific community" for bringing light to a lack of a biological understanding brought about by the "hippie or spiritual community", but it's still all the same. Just a different perception.
Steven Kotler = Jeff Goldblum entering the telepod with Robert Downey Jr instead of the fly.
Very interesting, especially when considering information processing in creativity , but i dont think you can reduce the transcendental experience one has with activated/deactivated parts of the brain.. correlate yes it seems so, but you cant pin it to the activity itself..
When I retired I felt that!
The brain is not the cause, consciousness is the cause.....
I am one with my bong
a bit materialist but its value is unquestionable
If they’ve only consulted the United States and Europe, how can they possibly be getting the full scope of ideas on this topic? There are so many indigenous communities and schools of thought that contain answers to questions that maybe this Euro-centric community never even thought to ask.
Oneness with the universe isnt a "byproduct" of the brain. This whole "world" snd our bodies are a byproduct of consciousness.
so how exactly do I get more done now?
meditate lol
This is some super cool shit
This is the shit. I've experienced it while playing basketball, freestyle rapping, during sex...I'm so glad our brains have such a functional capacity and I can willingly induce it. Ah yeah!
How did you achieve it in basketball?
Sense of self? Nope. That is EVER present. If you mean the dialogue associated with self and the narrative of personhood? Sometimes, but it just doesn't distract me. It becomes a piece of scenery in my consciousness. I meditate pretty much daily and have been intensely for at least two years. I've found no greater foothold on performance than meditation, proper cardiovascular health, proper plant diet, instrument playing, singing, sexual control, and extreme dedication to results.
So where do you go, to get this"flo"?
Multitasking is bad bad bad!
Wow I read the comments. People are really confused about flow. Just think about performance, or.. Being in the zone. I dunno, it's hard to explain. And apparently describing it scientifically isn't helping either. I sure that anyone who practices an art, does a lot of work on...stuff that takes long... Or competes at something should know what it's like to just feel the flow. One guy in the comments mentioned playing. Moba. I'll say it for fighting games and drawing.
This guy's voice sounds like it would put me to sleep and that I'd awake three times as smart.
Limitless, gimme that pill, Steven!
He didn't give any tips on how to slow the brain down. Just kept on blabbering about neuroscience and the research. This concept of time passing slowly in the NOW STATE has been spoken about in the VEDAS for centuries.
Single Task on 1 thing at a time. That brings about the focused flow state. It calms the brain down because you aren't perpetually 'switching' between a billion different things.
I caught this in the first 19 seconds of the talk.
Meditation. It's a well known practice.
Precisely right - has the cart before the horse in a couple of instances here. Hubris of western science is staggering.
You can look for it by yourself buddy. He is just introducing the topic.
@@IntheEndAhNevermind thank you someone actually said it i do MEDITATION almost everyday easy and simple practice
Although it might sound crazy to some, when I start thinking to much or when my mind feels sluggish and "lost" I usually take a deep breath and let out a quick but loud yell. A deep yell though from your balls (courtesy of Elliott Hulse). It clears my mind and I am instantly more focused on whatever it is I'm doing, especially exercise
Can someone explain me this in easier english please.
Its sounds really interesting.
Thanks
It's about getting in "the zone", and what happens to the brain while in the zone. Get his book. It's too complicated to explain what he's discovered in a comment or few.
When he says you only use 10% of your brain, could this be because whenever we gather data of brain activity, each participant is aware they are being experimented or watched?
Now I know why, when the huge gold framed mirror slid down from the wall in a cavernous antique store, time stood still as it fell.
does overejaculation causes this hypofrontality
Isn`t this concept more for sports instead of academics?
Because academic actually require thinking, not doing things without thinking.
I am not scientific person, so I do not know any of these knowledges. I am however very curious about these kinds of topics, so would anyone answer this question for me please?
Like infants that have not yet learned to distinguish themselves as separate from the world and people around them.
It voice was so deep 1 I couldn't understand a lot and 2 all my organs moved
You could produce alot and increase your own life expectancy in theory. But in modern everyday situations this ain't going to benefit anyone. improvisation is a fundament that is under-threat could be like a sacrifice just preparing you if you'd ever go ahead with something as tranquil as meditation
That explains gaming and why people do that
Robert Downey jr. did a great job in this video, couldn't even recognize him at first since he shaved.
this does make you think.
How does one achieve flow? Especially a person with inattentive ADHD?
Wait so how do you get out of your own way and that?
🍄 Boundary dissolution🙏🏻
mind = blown