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Science Can Help You Reach Enlightenment—but Will It Mess with Your Head?

By Stefanie Cohen — 2017

For a long time, research into flow states was subjective—researchers had to rely on people’s self-reported experiences to understand altered states of mind. But advances in imaging technologies such as fMRIs (functional magnetic resonance imaging) over the last decade have allowed researchers to see what’s happening under the hood during various mental states.

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What Is a Flow State?

If you have ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state that psychologists refer to as flow. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, energy, and involvement.

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11 Activities and Exercises to Induce a Flow State (+ 6 Examples)

Flow state is losing yourself in the moment; when you find your abilities are well matched to an activity, the world around you quietens and you may find yourself achieving things you only dreamt to be possible.

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The Man Who Found the Flow

“What is happiness?” asked psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He found it in a state of mind beyond results and rewards and called it “the flow.”

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It’s Great to Be ‘In the Zone’ — While Working, Exercising and Creating Art. Here’s How to Get There.

In the 1960s, psychologist Abraham Maslow became the first academic to write about what he called “peak experiences,” moments of elation that come from pushing ourselves in challenging tasks.

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How to Enter the ‘Flow State’ for Effortless Creativity

Taking a modern look at a millennia-old concept. We experience the "flow state" when a given task becomes effortless and time slips by without our noticing. The concept has appeared in many ancient philosophies like Stoicism and Taoism, and modern research has confirmed this experience is real.

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The ‘Flow State’: Where Creative Work Thrives

Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’?

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The Flow (the Zone)— For Writers? What Is It? How Do I Get Into It?

The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.

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Altered States of Consciousness