The Psychology of Optimum Experience

The neocortex, the seat in your brain, of thinking actually shuts down for a short period of time. Your brain waves when your prefrontal cortex shut down temporarily go from beta, which is every day, down to alpha and perhaps even down to theta. You drop into a state that Mihai Chixentmihai called Flow. When the Navy seals do amazing things on their military missions, we are now finding through research they are in a state of flow.