Incredible insights on how to optimize your life and experience through flow state with Jamie Wheal. If you are looking to tap into flow and peak performance and distill down the elements of how to tap in this is the episode for you.
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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