Athletes and musicians know what the flow is. It is the point where you are absorbed totally in the moment, where your concentration on the task at hand is not only laser sharp but second nature, instinctual. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of positive psychology, studied the very nature of this experience, a depth of engagement and found it applied to across a spectrum of vocations.
As a trainer, I too have experienced being in that zone, in the flow state. When I am truly in the moment while I am teaching, I have what I can only describe as something akin to an out of body experience. My shoes no longer pinch my feet, my headache miraculously disappears, I am no longer hungry or tired… nothing matters except that point in time and my students.
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