Eric Partaker teaches a breathing sequence to enter flow state fast. Three sets of deep breaths, each with a focus: relax, release the past, release the future, vacation in the present, then settle. Use it before work or when you get distracted.
Does this sound familiar? You sit down to work on something important to you. A few minutes into it and you're starting to think about something else. Suddenly you're researching something on the net. Now the phone rings, now you start going back to what you're working on. Suddenly an hour is gone. Then the whole day goes by and you get to the end of the day and you look back and you go, I didn't do anything that I had wanted to achieve today. Well, that's how my life used to be day after day. But today I'm going to share with you how how you can rapidly get into a state of flow. How you can generate what's called a flow state very, very quickly so that you can work in a very distraction free, super focused way to get done whatever it is that you need to do.
Hi, my name is Eric Partaker and I help entrepreneurs and leaders scale up themselves, their companies and their well being, all in a quest to help people unlock their fullest potential in both business and life. And today I want to teach you a very super simple technique that you can use to generate what's called a flow state. Now, for those of you that don't know, a flow state is a state in which you're working or doing something where you pretty much lose any sense of time. Often athletes will feel it when they're in the zone, for example, and they're just hitting shot after shot and everything just feels effortless. And that's a state that also is related to us being in our most creative, most focused distraction free mode. And it's a state that we can generate at will if we practice. And I'm gonna today give you a simple sequence of deep breaths that you can use to clear your mind and generate an instant flow state so that you can work distraction free on whatever it is that matters to you in the moment. The first thing that you're going to do is before you enter a period of quality work where you want to work distraction free, even if it's just for 20 minutes or 30 minutes, whatever it may be, we want to invoke and generate a flow state. And we do that first by taking all these are sets of three deep breaths. Okay? So you're going to close your eyes and you take a first set of deep breaths. So let's say you're sat at your desk, you close your eyes, first set of deep breaths, and during those deep breaths, you're just focused on relaxing. You may even say to yourself, with these three deep breaths, I am now Relaxing, sinking deeper and deeper into your seat, releasing any tension you might have in your jaw, your shoulders. Three deep breaths to fully relax. The next set of three deep breaths is to let go of the past. And so you're taking your next three deep breaths. In through the nose, out through the mouth, and you're letting go of the past. And you may even say to yourself, and with these next three deep breaths, I'm letting go of the past. The past no longer exists. You choose to not identify with it. And with the next set of three deep breaths, you let go of the future. And you may say to yourself, with these three next three deep breaths, I'm letting go of the future. The future hasn't happened yet. I need only focus on where I am right now. And with the next set of three deep breaths, I want you to focus on taking a vacation in the present moment. Because if you've let go of the past, and if you've let go of the future, all you're left with is the present. And it will feel like a vacation. No stress, no anxiety. So, three deep breaths. And you say, and with these next three deep breaths, I'm taking a vacation in the present moment. This is the only place that I need to be right here, right now. And then you take a final three deep breaths. Your eyes remain closed during this whole time to really enjoy that feeling of being completely relaxed. And now in that flow state and coming out of those three deep breaths, you then focus on your work ahead with a clear mind, relaxed. And you will notice a significant increase in your productivity and your ability to resist distraction. And what happens if you suddenly feel like you're all over the place and you're anxious again? Do the whole sequence again and keep doing that to bring yourself back to that flow state over and over and over and over again. And you too will see a huge increase in your productivity. So I hope you've enjoyed that. And please, as always, like, comment and subscribe below. Thank you.
