Loch Kelly: Flow states divide into absorbed flow and panoramic awareness
Loch Kelly · #103 Loch Kelly: Effortless Mindfulness · Feb 9, 2021 · at 13:17
Meditation teacher Loch Kelly explains the distinction between one-pointed absorbed flow and open panoramic flow during a discussion on effortless mindfulness with Shane Parrish.
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“When they talk about flow state, I distinguish two kinds of flow state. One's an absorbed flow state where you're so interested in an activity and you're focused one pointed attention and you're kind of go into it and then time you look up and an hour's gone by. So you kind of enter that world and everything else is gone and they call that a flow state, but that's not as interesting to me as What I call a panoramic flow state, which is when similar to that initial exercise of opening your Awareness around and feeling embodied. You're in the world, connected to everybody and everything. You're aware of being able to do kind of optimal functioning of complex tasks without thinking about thinking, and then you feel in the now, you feel selfless, a kind of sense of joy or well-being or ecstasy. Your implicit memory Is your thinking, so you know how to do whatever you're doing, and you're just operating from an awake awareness consciousness that's organizing your thought in a way that's effortlessly mindful.”
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