The Flowstate Principles Podcast

“Breathing- it’s  a hard sell”, points out Col Clayton, the founder of 8 Fold Health.

Yeah we all breathe… but we don’t all breathe equally, or properly.

Col is a man passionate about optimising our health, and going right back to the fundamental foundation of our life- which is breathing. You can go 3 weeks without food. 3 days without water. Try 3 minutes without breathing.

Breath is the thin veil between life and death and it is also a focal point of many ancient spiritual paths.

So why don’t we revere it? Why don’t we teach our kids how to do it right? Why don’t we train ourselves to do it right? Why are we not all going to breath workshops to get better at it, instead of going to the gym and learning how to pick up a metal loaded bar over and over?

Obviously, its because we all think we can do it well enough. Well, you can do more.  Proper breathing is about as foundational for health and performance as it gets. It is kind of crazy how much money and attention goes into peak performance enhancers, drinks, pills, equipment etc etc… when a few minutes a day of conscious breath work could optimise our performance more than anything.

There are those who spend their entire lives refining their breathing.  Breath is the gateway to next level performance.  (Reminder, soon I will be interviewing Wim Hof, perhaps the greatest living example of the power of breath- he can control his immune system).

In this podcast, Col Clayton and I cover some of these topics and more. Col has a unique skill set that combines real-world clinical experience in corporate health and the fitness industry. A didgeridoo player, surfer and father, he is building his own unique coaching practice, providing services for children and adults as well as elite athletes and health professionals.

Col holds a Masters degree in Clinical Rehabilitation, post-graduate qualifications in Health Promotion and and has more than 15 years of experience in corrective exercise, rehabilitation, injury prevention  and health promotion.

This episode is a cracker! Stick around to the end as a I give an actual breath-work practice you can work on today.

What you will learn:

-How you habits are effecting your breathing bio-mechanics

-Why you might be breathing wrong

-How stress effects your breathing

-An overview of Holotropic breath work

-Breathing and altered states of consciousness

-How we can use breath techniques as part of a visualisation and gratitude practice

-Learn how optimising your breathing is the key to peak performance

-Free-diving- The most powerful experience of my life

Useful links:

-Col’s website- check out some of his videos!

 

“Breathing- it’s  a hard sell”, points out Col Clayton, the founder of 8 Fold Health.

Yeah we all breathe… but we don’t all breathe equally, or properly.

Col is a man passionate about optimising our health, and going right back to the fundamental foundation of our life- which is breathing. You can go 3 weeks without food. 3 days without water. Try 3 minutes without breathing.

Breath is the thin veil between life and death and it is also a focal point of many ancient spiritual paths.

So why don’t we revere it? Why don’t we teach our kids how to do it right? Why don’t we train ourselves to do it right? Why are we not all going to breath workshops to get better at it, instead of going to the gym and learning how to pick up a metal loaded bar over and over?

Obviously, its because we all think we can do it well enough. Well, you can do more.  Proper breathing is about as foundational for health and performance as it gets. It is kind of crazy how much money and attention goes into peak performance enhancers, drinks, pills, equipment etc etc… when a few minutes a day of conscious breath work could optimise our performance more than anything.

There are those who spend their entire lives refining their breathing.  Breath is the gateway to next level performance.  (Reminder, soon I will be interviewing Wim Hof, perhaps the greatest living example of the power of breath- he can control his immune system).

In this podcast, Col Clayton and I cover some of these topics and more. Col has a unique skill set that combines real-world clinical experience in corporate health and the fitness industry. A didgeridoo player, surfer and father, he is building his own unique coaching practice, providing services for children and adults as well as elite athletes and health professionals.

Col holds a Masters degree in Clinical Rehabilitation, post-graduate qualifications in Health Promotion and and has more than 15 years of experience in corrective exercise, rehabilitation, injury prevention  and health promotion.

This episode is a cracker! Stick around to the end as a I give an actual breath-work practice you can work on today.

What you will learn:

-How you habits are effecting your breathing bio-mechanics

-Why you might be breathing wrong

-How stress effects your breathing

-An overview of Holotropic breath work

-Breathing and altered states of consciousness

-How we can use breath techniques as part of a visualisation and gratitude practice

-Learn how optimising your breathing is the key to peak performance

-Free-diving- The most powerful experience of my life

Useful links:

-Col’s website- check out some of his videos!

 

Alan Watts has been a big influence in my evolution from a frightened, insecure humanoid to one who now feels connected to everyone and everything, including my life purpose. Unlike...

The post TFPP 027: Alan Watts: The Wisdom of Insecurity appeared first on Flowstate Collective.

Alan Watts has been a big influence in my evolution from a frightened, insecure humanoid to one who now feels connected to everyone and everything, including my life purpose.

Unlike many Zen Buddhists and philosophers, Watt’s had a rare ability to explain his wisdom simply and to cut through layers of delusion.

In this Flow nugget, I just felt called to read a passage from his classic The Wisdom of Insecurity. 

 

 

 

In this passage Watt’s talks about the common separation that is created by the thinking mind, and how this manifests in obsession of past and future, which means we all miss the whole point of life. The meaning of life is this very moment. Now…. And NOW…… and now…. and now.. This could get tedious.

Enjoy the episode!

Don’t like to listen? Read the passage below…

“So long as the mind is split, life is perpetual conflict, tension, frustration, and disillusion. Suffering is piled on suffering, fear on fear, and boredom on boredom. The more the fly struggles to get out of the honey, the faster he is stuck. Under the pressure of so much strain and futility, it is no wonder at all that men seek release in violence and sensationalism, and in the reckless exploitation of their bodies, their appetites, their material world, and their fellow men. What this must add to the necessary and unavoidable pains of existence is incalculable.

But the undivided mind is free from this tension of trying always to stand outside oneself and to be anywhere than here and now. Each moment is lived completely, and there is thus a sense of fulfillment and completeness. The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find out better than the last. It finds nothing good, because there is nothing which it really tastes.

When, on the other hand, you realize that you live in, indeed are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere. You go round and round, but not under the illusion that you are pursuing something, or fleeing from the jaws of hell….

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music, also, it is fulfilled in each moment of the course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales….

When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end. While there is life there is hope — and if one lives on hope, death is indeed the end. But to the undivided mind, death is another moment, complete like every moment, and cannot yield its secret unless lived to the full.

Alan Watts has been a big influence in my evolution from a frightened, insecure humanoid to one who now feels connected to everyone and everything, including my life purpose.

Unlike many Zen Buddhists and philosophers, Watt’s had a rare ability to explain his wisdom simply and to cut through layers of delusion.

In this Flow nugget, I just felt called to read a passage from his classic The Wisdom of Insecurity. 

 

 

 

In this passage Watt’s talks about the common separation that is created by the thinking mind, and how this manifests in obsession of past and future, which means we all miss the whole point of life. The meaning of life is this very moment. Now…. And NOW…… and now…. and now.. This could get tedious.

Enjoy the episode!

Don’t like to listen? Read the passage below…

“So long as the mind is split, life is perpetual conflict, tension, frustration, and disillusion. Suffering is piled on suffering, fear on fear, and boredom on boredom. The more the fly struggles to get out of the honey, the faster he is stuck. Under the pressure of so much strain and futility, it is no wonder at all that men seek release in violence and sensationalism, and in the reckless exploitation of their bodies, their appetites, their material world, and their fellow men. What this must add to the necessary and unavoidable pains of existence is incalculable.

But the undivided mind is free from this tension of trying always to stand outside oneself and to be anywhere than here and now. Each moment is lived completely, and there is thus a sense of fulfillment and completeness. The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find out better than the last. It finds nothing good, because there is nothing which it really tastes.

When, on the other hand, you realize that you live in, indeed are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere. You go round and round, but not under the illusion that you are pursuing something, or fleeing from the jaws of hell….

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music, also, it is fulfilled in each moment of the course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales….

When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end. While there is life there is hope — and if one lives on hope, death is indeed the end. But to the undivided mind, death is another moment, complete like every moment, and cannot yield its secret unless lived to the full.

I stumbled across Josh by accident. I was looking for people in the flow and neuroscience space on Linkedin and noticed on his profile he said:  "I have a passion for Physics,...

The post TFPP 026: Josh Rice- How to induce flow, optimise creativity and generate millions of Youtube hits appeared first on Flowstate Collective.

I stumbled across Josh by accident.

I was looking for people in the flow and neuroscience space on Linkedin and noticed on his profile he said:  “I have a passion for Physics, Neuroscience, hacking flow states, inventions, and The Future, so if you or your company are interested in discussing any of these subjects, email me!”

So I did.. and I’m so glad I did, as Josh is an incredible example of a self-directed learner, who has taken action to build awareness of his mind and behaviour, so that he can optimise his creativity and overall performance.

If you want to become more creative, and find out more about your human potential, DO NOT miss this episode. Josh Rice is one fascinating dude.

With more than 220,000 YouTube subscribers and over 20 million total views he is one of the top musical talents in the “underground” YouTube music world.

But he doesn’t even do that anymore. Now he works with a team of animators to create unique 3D Animated stories and songs, all based on Minecraft (a popular computer game) parodies.

He runs a youtube channel called Mineworks Animations which has received around 200 million views in the last two years.

He has learned a lot about the internet audience organism, and how/why certain content goes viral, and some doesn’t.

Want a FREE track Josh has created to get into a creative Alpha brain wave state?

Flow and Creativity notes

In this 1 hour 20 minute interview, we cover:

* Why some videos go viral and some don’t

* How Josh came to be such a great learner

* Altered states of consciousness through ayahuasca (my experience) and meditation

* Binaural beats, brainwave entrainment and Tibetan monks

* Rappers achieving temporary loss of ego through transient hypofrontality (flow states)

* Using Isochronic tones, to deliberately achieve certain brain states

* How lighting, colours and smells can all create different states of mind

* What have you learned about flow?

* How the internet will revolutionise learning and the education system

Useful flow/ creativity Links

Mineworks Animation channel

Brain wave Studio– for isochronic tones for getting into different zone

Mind Wave 2 : Isochronic Version by Jakub Koter

The most popular Mineworks video, viewed over 20 million times. Crazy!

Want a FREE track Josh has created to get into a creative Alpha brain wave state?

I stumbled across Josh by accident.

I was looking for people in the flow and neuroscience space on Linkedin and noticed on his profile he said:  “I have a passion for Physics, Neuroscience, hacking flow states, inventions, and The Future, so if you or your company are interested in discussing any of these subjects, email me!”

So I did.. and I’m so glad I did, as Josh is an incredible example of a self-directed learner, who has taken action to build awareness of his mind and behaviour, so that he can optimise his creativity and overall performance.

If you want to become more creative, and find out more about your human potential, DO NOT miss this episode. Josh Rice is one fascinating dude.

With more than 220,000 YouTube subscribers and over 20 million total views he is one of the top musical talents in the “underground” YouTube music world.

But he doesn’t even do that anymore. Now he works with a team of animators to create unique 3D Animated stories and songs, all based on Minecraft (a popular computer game) parodies.

He runs a youtube channel called Mineworks Animations which has received around 200 million views in the last two years.

He has learned a lot about the internet audience organism, and how/why certain content goes viral, and some doesn’t.

Want a FREE track Josh has created to get into a creative Alpha brain wave state?

Flow and Creativity notes

In this 1 hour 20 minute interview, we cover:

* Why some videos go viral and some don’t

* How Josh came to be such a great learner

* Altered states of consciousness through ayahuasca (my experience) and meditation

* Binaural beats, brainwave entrainment and Tibetan monks

* Rappers achieving temporary loss of ego through transient hypofrontality (flow states)

* Using Isochronic tones, to deliberately achieve certain brain states

* How lighting, colours and smells can all create different states of mind

* What have you learned about flow?

* How the internet will revolutionise learning and the education system

Useful flow/ creativity Links

Mineworks Animation channel

Brain wave Studio– for isochronic tones for getting into different zone

Mind Wave 2 : Isochronic Version by Jakub Koter

The most popular Mineworks video, viewed over 20 million times. Crazy!

Want a FREE track Josh has created to get into a creative Alpha brain wave state?

If our culture was as obsessed with consciousness and the mind, as it is with physical appearance, there would be no war, crime, famine or suffering. We would all be content...

The post TFPP 025: How to Reprogram Your Consciousness appeared first on Flowstate Collective.

If our culture was as obsessed with consciousness and the mind, as it is with physical appearance, there would be no war, crime, famine or suffering.

We would all be content with what we had, living in the moment, serving those around us.

But as it is we have a culture where people get calf implants, botox injections, spends billions on sh#t they don’t need, watches so much shite TV that they keep making more shite TV, and somehow allows lizard like media moguls to be the most powerful men in the world.

If we all start being conscious about what we feed our consciousness, huge changes will occur.

We will feel less afraid and more inspired, reality TV will be relegated to the  dustbin of history, mass media will be forced to tell the truth and report newsworthy events in a non-agenda driven way.

But most of all, we will free ourselves from the bondage of conditioning.  Or to be more accurate, we will be able to choose our own conditioning.

Click below to listen to this episode on how to feed your consciousness.

 

 

 

 

 

In this episode I give a few ideas on how we can deliberately change our conditioning to set up a more awesome, authentic and inspiring life.