How To Get Into The Flow State | Steven Kotler
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2019
- Steven Kotler, author of Mindvalley's 'The Habit of Ferocity' talks at A-Fest Jamaica about flow and how it can create peak performers. Ignite your highest potential in your work and passions with Steven Kotler's FREE masterclass 👉 go.mindvalley.com/sRTDG_FZ
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For me flow shows up after prolonged focus on a subject I enjoy a lot.
Quiet music in the background. Psytrance, ambient, disco or black metal.
Calm your heart, calm your mind. Focus on one thing at a time. Happiness Frequency - UA-cam.
Omg blah,blah,blah,,get to the point. This guy sucks...
That either I have the ability to gain the knowledge I am seeking or I am unable to know that I am unable... There is no third alternative.... That brings me into flow state....
18:34 - triggers for flow
Thank fucking God for you.
The real Batman right here..
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thank you!
Thank you! These are like TED talks, takes fucking hours just to get to the point
Haha crazy, I simply worked on myself and realized that all the meditations made me understand that I have to live in the now and see things objectively, no judgment. Basically killing anxiety and emotional reactions, made me forget about my ego, feeling like a big part of something, observing a lot more. This was a month ago and that was two days in an a crazy state, absolute peace of mind, happiness and creativity. I was honestly sad after it ended wanted it to last, never felt that way. Wrote everything down, focusing on learning about it more. Well and now I am here.
Sound interesting. How did you kill the anxiety and emotions?
@@learnedtobe8416 Meditation increases certain parts of the brain that are responsible for creative and cognitive performance and promote those five flow chemicals in the brain Steven talked about as well as decreasing certain parts of the brain that are responsible for anxiety and depression.
Dude. Same exact journey as you. I've been ebbing and flowing with this... my anxieties are essentially gone but I can feel when I'm out of flow or in a 'Beta' state. I guess being in flow is like being in 'Alpha'... Have to influence the mind-body or our emotions, and the best way to do that is thru the subconscious which is basically right before you fall asleep and immediately upon waking up... I'm still learning and I love it.
@@learnedtobe8416 well I have recently been able to tap into that state more and more
@@learnedtobe8416 I have all control over emotions now and no anxiety at all anymore. This makes it pretty easy to return to flow. The rule to this is deep peace of mind and that as main goal, no more stressing about things, no more impulsive/emotional reactions, mo more participation in drama. Meditate a lot and do Wim Hof breathing.
I will Master Ultra Instinct
That's why I'm doing this too
Same
Same
i will master haki
LMFAO
In Russia, we drink 200 g of vodka in the morning and then the whole day turns into a beautiful flow
Evgeny Belyakov 😂
Jajajjajajajaaj 🤣 died laughing
I see a marketing opportunity there for "Flow Vodka" lol
@@FractalCodex7 oh shoot
My friend, my friend..:: take it easy!
The best "FLOW" state i came across and always work for me is,
1. Reading through youtube comment.
2.Clicking through UA-cam "Recommendation" list until you get off the wrong side of youtube and realized your day was gone.
Did i forget something?
Fuck
hahaha
i needed this
you forgot grammar
Did i forget lol.
@@devonrd you forgot to get the fuck out :D
I felt this flow a few times after cutting hair for 13 hours straight. When I tapped into the flow it felt like every movement I did was the correct one.
The best flow state is achieved by working with your hands. Woodworking, pottery, gardening, etc. It's in your genes.
No.
@@Redomic Absolutely. I've been making and creating things since very young age. No meditation can be compared with the flow state when you loose yourself in the process of creation. It's super empowering.
Absolutely l am a plasteter spent over 35 years in flow states
Yes. Thats why I quilt. There are several stages to constructing a quilt and each is unique to the total experience. Theres no step to quilt building that I can say I hate.
I think another way of getting into the flow state is when a friend calls you and pulls you to the state. be friends with good, hardworking people so sometimes they can push you forward.
Very interesting idea. Talking to career ambitious friends/ persons is definitely mood changing and uplifting.
it is harder than reaching the state of flow, to get friends like them
Absolutely!
I am not an athlete or artist, nor do I do anything extreme. I’m a paraprofessional and teaching a child with autism and watching them learn and succeed is what gets me into that flow state. It’s the concentrated one-on-one time and seeing them respond that gets my brain fired on all cylinders, the ideas flow with ease, and the pure excitement and joy I feel with even one small success is everything to me! Sometimes I tear up. I don’t know, it’s indescribable really. I find my flow in doing what I love.
That’s not flow
Yes is is watch the video again pay attention, passion is key to flow and as long as he is genuinely feeling that then all the other flow triggers can easily fall into place for him to get into a state of flow while doing that!@@pacslife7083
+ 4:55 : Where You Perform Our Best and Feel Our Best, Moments Of Wrapped Attention, Everything Else Disappear.
+ 7:50 : Overall Life Satisfaction Comes from Flow.
+ 11:04 : We are Using Less Of The Brain In Flow, Transient Hypo Frontality.
+ 14:54 : Flow is the only time we get all the pleasure neurochemicals at once.
+ 18:00 : Flow States have triggers, Important Flow Follows Focus, Triggers drives attention into the here and now.
18:13 : Flow Follows Focus
+ 22:30 : 90-120 mins block of interrupted concentration, Concentration is the foundation of Flow.
+ Live Around Flow Triggers, Flow Is Trainable
+ 32:31: 30yrs of Meditation waves similar to flow states, 6 weeks of meditation / 4 days of focused meditation is enough.
+ 33:40 : 4 days of Meditation is enough
+ 33:53 : Useful Sites
+ 34:47 : Knowledge work and flow.
Thank u .....
Thanks
As an artist, it's a state i love getting into.
With the world we live in today though it's difficult to get into that state because society/ work puts so much pressure on us which can hinder that state.
I am constantly trying to find blocks of time and even when I do its more like a tease. Not satisfying enough. Life breaks into your zone...fr
You said it right. Learning today is trapped in the cobwebs of reward and punishment rather than by the internal joy of doing them, a state of mind essential to flow.
To cut it short...Flow follows the I am, the now moment, the Greater Self... thank you for sharing
This is what the Great Masters have always said.. Blessing
What terrific information. Thank you, Steven. And thank you to all your cohorts, too!
This is Gold. Yesterday I expirienced a flow state and the feedback I got from colleagues for the piece of work I did was phenominal
When I ran track in college I had hit a peak in my training where This energy would kick in or take over and I seemed like I wasn’t expending any energy I looked at my legs and arms moving and I thought to myself, “wow I’m not even running hard” when we finished the race my coach said to me, you had perfect form and boy were you moving that is your best 200m time yet.
like Neo in The Matrix
I look down at the finished quilt I'm ironing and thing 'sh4t I created the next best thing to fire!'
Flow state is our natural state, we get out of it as we are judged by others for 'daydreaming, not paying attention etc'. Modern world is obsessed with productivity and success, so they don't let you just flow, which would naturally bring way more productivity and success if you just let it.
Well pointed out
Truth
Beeing aligend with my heart, brings me into Flow.
We need to incorporate this "Flow" knowledge into curriculum fir our young. Having grown up playing the drums. I had been entrained in a "flow" state through my adolescent years. This "Zen" state eased my adolescent foibles. As a regular state, Flowing populations entrained with The One Groove will Be the instigation of the foreseen unification. This is the beliefs of Groovists. Technology now enables globalization of our musical instincts. This is our purpose for Being one of billions!!
Amazing talk! Thank you for sharing SO much, which many people will just let pass them by..
This is a epic game changer here! One of those moments when you know how something is outside of your conscience awareness and the Aha Moment comes and it's like wow why didn't I get this earlier in life ❣️ Grateful for this cutting edge insight here ❣️👍
The how is available to those who believe and hear. You may have to listen a few times if you are unfamiliar. If you are trying to achieve a state of flow, it can help if:
You have a specific goal and plan of action
It is an activity that you enjoy or are passionate about
There is an element of challenge
You are able to stretch your current skill level
One of the best talks I've heard in very VERY long time! 🔥❤️🔥
I love this guy!!! He is teaching us how to be bless!!
OMG! Just what I needed to hear and so so well explained. This is brilliant.
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Such a wonderful orator, his confidence and charisma is so radiating. This is how public speaking should be done.
And the Tong Thing :)
Very gratefull that this content is free, such valuable information.
Thank you!🙏❤
All my life I have tried not only to define but also to repeat such short intervals in life. I did not know that people are intensively engaged in the flow. Well, it is never too late. So THANK YOU for this lecture. Greetings and all the best.
this is brilliant. People that we know and say he or she is in their own world, they are in the state of flow. The point from when your a kid and then you "wake up" and become more self aware, that is slowly awakening from the flow state. Its almost like being sedated in a positive way. I have been trying to get back to the flow state for years, but am holding on to something I need to workout before I can give in.
i felt this exact same thing, as a teen. i lived in a flow state, cause i didnt care about anything.
i was so good at my sport. but in my 19s, i lost that power.
here i am, 22 years old now, getting that power back. meditations, hardships, being in the present, gave me back that power that ive been looking for all these years.
I have been trying to be in flow for a year now and I have discovered you have to work on a lot of childhood trauma to be able to stay long in that state
breathe mf
Have a habit to get out best in your worst time!!! Thank you!!!
Thank y'all so much dearest 🌹
Y'all such an inspiration 🥰
Be Blissful Eternally 🙏👼🌈
This was Epic and blew my mind. Loved it and I’ll use it. Thank you. 🙏🙏
The few times I remember being in a flow state is during sports or life-threatening situations. Everything seemed to slow down and I was able to move and think at the same time
I am going to be on the list of people who did the impossible some day soon. I am an Economic Savant and I create super-companies that literally change the world by solving social and economic problems. All of humanity can thrive together economically with my vision. 🙏✌❤
Ps amazing talk. Love the flow state 🌟
@@davidanthony6408 not at all what I'm planning.
What worries me about this Flow thing (which I didn't realize before this talk) is that if you're turning off the part of your brain that governs your sense of morality, it explains all the amoral decisions and actions by today's corporate world. If that's what it means to be "in flow" I'll pass. I'll take caring for others above stepping all over them to get what I want every day of the week. I was hoping this was going to be a way to be more productive to be a help to society, not the other way around.
Better get that BP treated first.
Indeed aim big, not many people do. For you I’d recommend writing out the plan of actions and then going into the flow state so you don’t have to disrupt the flow by trying to memorize what to do next. Just look at the list and move
Alpha state knocks out inner critic.
Emotions have vibrational resonance that are most powerful and are fed by our thoughts so keep in mind God is our faithful imagination, heaven is harmony. Frequencies matter.
Being able to adaptively switch between sympathetic (alarm) and parasympathetic (calm down) CNS, merging brain hemispheres, using non-attachment and heart-mind-gut coherence free us up to reason better and be more productive.
Wonderful and inspiring information, thank you for sharing! 💞
So we are leaving more and more people behind since not everyone has the opportunity, or capacity without a hand. Great job!
Great presentation. It seems like you were in flow doing this. You inspired me to get into the practice of flow. I even wrote a very compact book about it.
This dude's lying out his ass 100%. At least when he's talking about his life. How does somebody take 4 months off and have money to continue action sports... This man has probably not broken a single bone in his body and just read a lot of action sports articles. Coming from me myself who has broken a lot of things both of my legs twice I can barely walk. It has caused me even further issues into my spine I have a crushed vertebrae from my legs being uneven due to the breakage.... If What this man was saying is true he would have no money to buy food... This man is a fraud like most journalists they're really good liars and really good at copying everyone else's work and trying to pretend it's their own.
Actually if you read his book, "Mapping Cloud 9" everything is word for word repeated from his book. Flow is more than memorizing and repeating Information.
Wow, this makes perfect sense to me. I've been an athlete my entire life, and I can recall many times where the game "slowed down." I was able to make plays without much "thinking" that surprised myself. When re-watching some of my great moments on film they seem much faster to the normal eye. In basketball, being in the zone feels like water. I said that in high school 2009! Water to me = flow state. Thank you, much Love.
Thank you very much. You are the first one to point out that by closing my eyes i shut down the frontal lobe.From there on i go directlly to program my mind.
This video changed my life...i was looking for this...finallyy...
Your “talk” really spoke to me. Knowledge is power! There is so much information available that it can be difficult navigating through the plethora of self-help concepts being presented today. This has definitely sparked my interest! I attended a spiritual retreat this past weekend. I am in process of reinventing my being after a tragic life altering incident 5 years ago. I have learned many life lessons over the past five years. Today I have a positive attitude for possibilities, and have the opportunity to become the best possible me.
I prayed for guidance and motivation. I was listening to another talk, and this one came on randomly afterwards. More will be revealed.
Thank you for lighting a spark!
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Teach me haha
I am obsessed with this, l want to learn to master flow.
I LOVE that even his last-words are reminiscent of Neo's last words in the first movie: "I'm going to tell these people everything they need to know.." I'm paraphrasing "..what you do from here, is up to you!!" 😇😇😇🤴😇😇😇
Good god! It’s amazing that you made it in one piece!
Flow is the fundamental DNA of business or human well-being for optimum level of satisfaction because it push the brain to motive, creative, learning, focus and passion.
I once got into the zone during BJJ match and he is right, it’s really addicting and making me want to go into zone more and more
I only teleported my body 1 time, for a short distance, in front of witnesses. I love Kotler's research and info. I really need this to learn to teleport, all the time, and also do other miraculous feats, all the time.
I very much like the idea of neuroplasticity produced through flowing physical status , shutting off the docile mentalities !!
I want to hear more of these flow talks talk about flow arts. It's a form of object manipulation dancing specifically for the purpose of achieving deep flow states and is really easy to teach to anyone. I'm a professional flow artist and for example we teach autistic children to achieve flow state through flow arts and it has such a profound and observable impact on their mental state.
Think of it like a period and dont put a tampon in. Let it flow. It might be messy, but embrace it
I'm 20 and autistic, and don't know how to do this. What do you teach them?
@@strionic770 We mostly teach people with a Flow Art called Poi. Poi is a sort of skill based dance you can do using balls in socks or balls on the end of rope tethers. We start by teaching multiple basic moves, then people just dance to music with them. You have to get the moves down smoothly though, and it's better if you go slower or in time with the music to achieve flowstate in the beginning. You can find plenty of guides here on youtube, start simple and there's other flow arts as well you can look up. For example I do "Dragon Staff" and "Contact Staff".
So cool to hear your thoughts on being in the flow state!
Thanks for sharing.. Much love & gratitude.. God bless..
This was great insight, thanks for sharing!
I was in this state in 3rd grade because I was doing end of the year testing so it was 2 hours in the room but I got so focused that it felt I only worked for 10 minutes but it was 2 hours and I did so much work in the test
4:37 flow: runner's high, being in the zone
6:25 uninterrupted concentration in the present moment, vanishing of self, time dilation.
#stayinthepresentmoment #notime #nobody
8:09. 8:48
Amazing! Makes total sense. Now, I understand a lot more.
floating is awesome . i love the flow state and thank you for making this video cause people dont understand anything in this world and it is time to talk about it
I like that idea that when we are in flow we use less of the frontal cortex, thus freeing up processing power. It's like when you're meditating you're not thinking - your letting go of thoughts (clouds of the mind) so you can experience the big sky.
Flow is where we are in the Observer Position.
If we are watching the mind from a Super-position, the mind will be much quieter and clear.
From a position like that we have control over the mind and the emotions. So we know how fare to take things.
Flow is great to be in, when I learned to do so at work there was nothing I could not do.
Got any tips? How do you activate it?
Hey Steve,
You did really amazing. I took a lot of notes and I hope to learn more from your insights!
I need to rewatch this video just to dissect it even further!
omg ....amzing vidio...im surprized why whole world is unknown abt this.... im lucky....😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Decisiveness builds flow. At work sometimes I contemplate doing task A or learning B for task C. I try to give myself no more than 10 seconds to contemplate and that's it.
This is incredible and groundbreaking
This is Not new....The Great Masters have always said this. This is a Great time that we are realizing this . Blessings Blessings
This has blown my mind !!!! I accidentally found you !There are no accidents !
I have discovered how to put my clients into flow ... with an energy technique ! head and neck work combined . That produces all the effects that you are talking about and more !!! But could not figure out how to describe it !!! But you just did .
It came naturally to me because i discovered that when I work I'm in flow the whole time I'm practicing !!! Iv spent more time in flow some days than not !! I started out in Massage and quickly realized my technique around the head was really all I needed . And was putting people quickly in the deep now !!! And the benefits my clients where experiencing !! Mind blowing !! That being said I became very dis interested in massaging the body , it felt good but was not the reason people came to me . , and became the focus of my work !!
I'm a master energy practitioner, but live in Alaska in a town that was not ready for what I was doing !! So Massge kinda paid my bills !!
I became more and more frustrated !! With the massage label... and box it put me in .
Reiki is the practice that I was useing for the energy bump in my work . But with every session , and there have now been in the hundreds, now
My self being in flow state for an hour and a half , while having my clients there as well !! Of course I was honing my skill . And clients where staying in flow longer and deeper after treatments!! With even greater results ! No matter what issues they are having . Spiritual , mental, emotional , or physical!!!
I just recently stopped doing Massge ... or calling what I do Massge . And the term reiki although my frequency of choice . Has become so popular and hence distorted .. in the application . That I'm not even sure I want to lead with that any more . As when you do a large body of work , as I have . You morf into your own style.
All that being said . After a long break . I'm coming back to my work ! And the only thing I could think to call it was flow !!! ( never having heard of what , you have been doing) till this morning
Its like assisted meditation!! I explain it's like laying down and experiencing a state of master level meditation !! For an hour and a half !!! , you can tell people the benefits of meditation ... and how important it can be . Most people then would tell me how all there attempts have failed . And how they don't stick to it . Or go deep.
But being able to experience what it feels like to be in that state.. physically , for the first time ... is extremely motivating ..the missing link !! It's been an amazing body of work . And now that's all I'm going to be doing moving forward !!
It's funny that you talk about sports, I had golfers !! That would not play tournaments , with out a session first and it really improved the game .
Also kicked side effects of chemotherapy treatments ! Completely!! Shifts mental emotional , blocks , mood disorders ...pain relief . The list goes on !!
Thank you .. for this research !! It makes so much sense .. and explains !! A very abstract concept !!
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Id love to work on your neck !!
Lol no seriously 🤗
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'The deep now'...nice!
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You have described almost identical my life path up to now. Do you Ever come to London? Or do I just need to get to Alaska? Thanks JB
This comment needs more exclamation points.
...and cowbell.
Hi Steven, I am 63 and still doing extreme rock climbing. Very few injuries and no serious ones.
Flow is a very new term for someone That is innate in every human being and has been around as long as we've been around.... Having been in that roam for hours years at a time I've become very familiar with it And discovered many things and still am about ourselves
Bloody FANTASTIC!! What a boost.
Intuitively connecting, being in the flow, being in the zone, the pocket he mentioned....its all the same thing. This is where time distorts. It can fold in on itself or we can lose big chunks of it. When doing art, sports, business people can get into the flow. This is where we disconnect from our conscious reality and go into the subconscious, almost a dream like state or a working meditation of sorts. Repetitive programming works in conjunction with music for me. The more repetition, when the music begins will take you into it easier every time. Suppose any sensory input would work maybe a scent or visual or tactile sense but repetition is key. I would imagine that the dream like state be in a certain brainwave format that we can be trained into. So if its theta in that dreamlike state maybe we start with alpha then beta then into theta. I dont know the differing levels but u get the point. In this state is where tru magic occurs. This is where inventions, inspirations, higher knowledge comes from. I believe Nicola Tesla was using this regularly in conjunction with his erratic sleep habits. Just love this topic, thx for video.
I use brain entrainment audios with earbuds to get into "flow"
Flow comes by doing what you love the most and here is where the connection with your Higher Self is amplified and you get TONS of support. Use your visualization mostly for what you want to create through what you love doing! Not your dreams and cars etc, by doing what you love, all the rest will follow through! Love is the Law. Love Under Will. (if you want to join the most advanced coaching sessions online feel free to visit @t
Excellent Alex.. I agree just follow ur passion...success and money ll come as a byproduct if u excel at what u love
I was in flow after the first half of this video and didn't realise until I took my eyes of the screen. He actually explains in the video why or how this even happened
The lesson most people should learn....
He's obviously in flow rn
Thanks in part to this information I tried something. I tried to learn about juggling. At first I got the basic ideas of the techniques with balls, but after watching this video I decided I wanted a slight element of danger to heighten my focus. It was time to learn to juggle with knives. I also had a bit of a hypothesis that going back and forth between fundamentals of technique and the edge of my skills would be worth trying. I almost envision it like the learning or the skill acquisition process as a pendulum going to the edges of my skill then back to the fundamentals. A fundamental in this situation would be just tossing one knife from hand to hand. Overall, I went from barely being able to juggle two balls to being able to juggle three knives in under two hours. I am very appreciative that information like this is out there.
Sincerely, thank you.
Also, I am aware that juggling knives fits squarely into the category of "Do not try this at home". So, yeah, please don't let this information influence you to do something stupid.
Okay
Inspiringly messages.. everything is temporary,, just flow with moment and be happy. My flows in the morning nothing changed in these situations hard times .. pandemic.. but not used to it
Creative problem solving is an amazing tool!
I am your first viewer and thanks for this video.
You're always welcome. Thanks too.
This stuff change your life forever.
You've just opened my eye to the possibility I can attain ....
Thankful for this man.
The flow state is a bridge toward more profound states and therefore, even more fundamental insights on living. The Kamakazi pilots used "flow" during suicide missions, flow states are probably used by mass murderers. On some level the talk is interesting and informative, but it's a bit like learning yoga so you can be a more efficient prison guard, or kabbala so you can land a sexier mate. There's a disconnect with the millennia long methods which have systematized flow/awareness/consciousness with their milieu of karma, suffering, rebirth and liberation. Having the defense department zap your brain so you can murder more people efficiently for corporations ignores the karmic effects of such actions and therefore will perturb a psyche (ie drone pilots suffer from PTSD, despite consistently working in a video game like flow state.) The same goes for mindfulness in the boardroom, so you can more clearly and effectively launch an attack on a developing country's bonds. Essentially, there is some level of excitement here, and the karmically chaotic applications merely prove how immature many westerners are regarding the power of their mind/body/awareness. Enamoring yourself with certain states will lead you to attachment, insights into awareness/consciousness are like a blossoming flower- here, they've taken a living process, dried and pressed it to carry around as a keepsake. Move beyond flow/awareness, allow the process to unfold, and perhaps the idea of settling for becoming a billionaire or successful fighter pilot will seem like small potatoes compared to enlightenment/liberation from illusion/suffering.
szymborska your so full of shit your eyes are brown.
I'm glad i know this...
Ill just microdose on shrooms everyday to dominate my enemies
Dont forget to cycle occasionally
0 0 what does that mean?
Same with my girl Lucy :)
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Micro-dosing "shrooms" is when you ingest a 'sub-perceptual' dose of Psilocybin mushrooms. The original commenter is saying that they will do this in order to reach the 'flow-state' and be cognitively enhanced to where they have a greater ability to manipulate others and, in this case- control them.
Neur0s1s he was asking what does ‘cycling’ mean
So the project is ongoing and gathering wisdom and momentum. Zoom!
This is amazing!
The Deep Now is probably my new favorite term/phrase
Flow comes from doing fun things-which comes from highly diversified sources. It can be anything from art to sports to games to reading to music... where challenge meets ability. If there is too much challenge, we are overwhelmed. If there is too little, we are bored. The right amount of challenge leads to flow.
Love this very much! Thank you. It seems to meld into my own studies on New Thought...spirtiual studies particularly on The Law of Attraction, Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy...
Practicing yoga, especially Ashtanga or Rocket yoga puts me in flow for about 5 hours. ♥️♥️♥️
to Abrahamsters this means IN THE VORTEX
find the alignment
Is this the vortex your in ua-cam.com/video/IDKApwBhOcs/v-deo.html
Yesss
yes...it also connects the dots for Joe dispenser's work on healing ourselves. elevated emotion with a clear intention. the front of my face and head actually goes numb when I go into this state.
Amazing talk on how flow works and what it enables. List of triggers was excellent. But what are the immediately actionable things we can do to enable flow?
1. Be clear and specific about what you want to achieve.
2. Decide upon your process (course/plan) that'll lead you towards your goals.
3. While pursuing the process, stay in the "present" moment of "I AM/ I HAVE...".
4. Being in the present moment will lighten up your heart and mind and naturally reject any thoughts of past or future worries!
5. Suddenly with more and more practice of the process, you'll strengthen your flow state. :)
all of this is great n very true but lets not also forget that we love in a world that does not want us to do and adopt these types of activities
brilliant talk, thanks
You could take psilocybin to encourage the flow state. Also --- try to enhance your ability to honestly empathize and that will reveal the inter connectedness of reality and relationship.
You could be studying Zen w/ Alan Watts on UA-cam. Or listening to Mckenna rhapsodize about how the plants are mother nature's plan to save us from our Ego. And The Ego, is what I would venture is keeping us from feeling this "flow state" or a "shutting off of the default mode network".
Anyway, Mother nature------ she didn't plan for this to fail right? What is natural---- is that things will naturally go on like they have. Everything is perfect. Everything is right as it should be. There hasn't been one single mistake in this entire universe. When you don't force things, and you 'go with' the river and you go with the 'flow' of reality, it seems as though you are the river and touching all that the river touches, and no longer trapped inside of this illusion of form....
Forget about trying to get into a flow state and just focus on what you're doing in the moment to the best of your ability.
Christopher thanks mate
Agree
YUP - Focus with intention - THATS IT! All this complicating talk does nothing but distract you from the very simple concept. Focus and know exactly what you want. IT HAPPENS by magic on its own after that! Many blessings to you my friend, i hope you have a great week.
This is awesome information. Thank You
I experienced the flow in different ways. One is musically, physically and visually. To harnest that you have to sit still and bring a state of inspiration without having to create anything. I feel like my view is inverted.. for example in a game I'm aware of everyone's position and the geometry of everything even the spin of the ball so it feels like your intuitively move in the present. Its takes a few seconds for the mind to interpret and signal the next move... but there is also another type of connection that cuts that time in half.. I just call it the energy body.
Yet it could be as simple as leaving behind doubt.
I step out of the matrix. I ignore every sensory stimulus. And therefore become more receptive.
Who else tried to get in a state of flow while watching the video?
Being flow state is so cool. Steve did mention that because of this simultaneous activation of the 5 neurotransmitters it produces a fatigue that must be realized in order to recover properly. I think learning mindfulness (Einstein time and being in the moment exclusively) is the real key because it's the foundation of flow. Mindfulness is actually the result of meditation, but not necessarily sitting meditation, and there are several types of meditation. Getting the brain into a theta-alpha frequency of relaxed state is key, in my opinion.