Accessing Flow States with Steven Kotler
The Mindvalley Podcast
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The Seven Elements of Flow
On an interrupted concentration, the vanishing of your sense of self. Your sense of self is generated by a bunch of different structures in your prefrontal cortex. In flow, when you need all this focused attention in the present moment, the brain starts to shut down non-critical areas and our sense of self disappears. So we experience it emotionally as liberation or as freedom. It's something happens to your sense of time. As parts of it start to wink out, we can't separate past from present and future. We're plunged into a state that researchers talk about as deep now. The timeless moment. That's in time dilation, vanishing itself,. under concentration of thepresent moment, the merger
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