JAMIE WHEAL: How to grow your mind and tap into FLOW state

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4:00 Jamie Wheal introduces flow

5:40 Being deeply connected to the present moment

6:00 What is flow state?

7:00 What are the ways everyday people can access flow?

7:15 Sleep, quality food, movement, and embodied cognition EAT, REST, MOVE, BREATHE

8:00 Virtue of oxygen in shifting stage of awareness - self-aware breathing

8:55 Control of respiration key to flow

9:11 Olympians and their tools in breathing and visualization

9:46 Wim Hoff - episode coming soon :)

10:23 Big wave surfing and flow state

11:18 Vagal nerve, and coherence affect through breath control - cascade of effects

11:49 If there was one thing you could add to your life and one thing you could take away to have the greatest effect, what would it be?

12:45 Virtue of Deep focused breathing and focused reflection/gratitude

13:25 Neuroscience of gratitude - and keeps us in the present moment

14:00 “Take the hit as a gift”

14:50 Challenge of traditional morning routine

15:50 Keep phone in airplane mode

16:11 Don’t think or say anything that you don’t want to be more true

17:20 Personal recipe for flow

17:50 Hire to cover your weak spots

18:40 What is the Flow Dojo?

20:00 How to upgrade

21:29 Flow state is accessible to all of us, mindset is the key

21:46 Difference between fixed and growth mindset

23:18 Always do the hard thing, the obstacle is the way

28:00 Training the muscle of your brain to create more space between

29:25 How to be at cause rather than at affect - watch your energy

30:00 Focus on the levers that have the greatest consequences for you

32:20 9 Trillion dollars into the church of the ecstatic - to get out of ourselves

32:25 Energy spent on state shifting activities

33:00 The agony of being

35:22 Ecstacies

38:20 Virtue of weekend to a productive week

28:30 Hedonic scheduling - how to organize your pleasure

38:50 Sex, drugs, and rock and roll - fastest route with lowest success route

39:00 Sabbath practice - schedule blow outs

39:50 What is the game?

40:00 Periods of forced abstinence 4-6 weeks off pleasure seeking behaviors

40:20 Fallow the Field

41:30 Middle structures and the “middle path”

41:46 Practice partners are essential

41:50 Many of the most liberating partnerships are based in expansive journeys - virtue of couples on the path

42:30 “There are no single presidents”

43:03 Ecstatic states give you access to the data all the way down

43:30 Paradox on ecstaies, not going too far

23:50 “Summiting is optional, getting home is mandatory”

45:00 Variety of options on bests - Jitterbug Perfume, Led Zeppelin 3 side B,

45:50 "We are not expected to finish the work, nor are we excused from it” - Talmud

46:55 Advice to self

47:30 Advice to self 15 years from now, legacy question - keep moving, keep writing

50:00 Legacy and Family