Flow is an optimal state of consciousness, when you feel and perform your best. It’s the moment of total absorption.Time speeds up or slows down like a freeze-frame effect. Mental and physical ability go through the roof, and the brain takes in more information per second, processing it more deeply.

What Flow is

<ol><li>Flow follows focus, and taking physical or social risks drives focus into the now.</li><li>Change your routine and increase novelty, unpredictability, and complexity</li><li>Focus with all senses, listening, looking, smelling, tasting, and touching. Whole body experiences, mindfulness, balance and agility training, and even video games work.</li></ol>

How to trigger the flow state

<ul><li>When a person is in a state of flow, all five potent neurochemicals massively amplify the immune system.</li><li>While on flow, stress-causing hormones are flushed out of body, and the autoimmune and nervous systems go haywire.</li><li>A Gallup poll found that most American workers are disengaged and spends less than 5% of their day in flow.</li></ul>

Research Findings On Flow

If you want to do more, learn more, and gain more, you might want to think like surfer. Surfing is a 1,000-year-old sport, and 20 years ago the biggest wave ever ridden was 25 feet. Today surfers push into waves 100 feet tall.