Five-minute practice · 5 minutes
How to practise Flow State in five minutes.
Flow State — a practice from Modern is The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time. Here is how to bring it into your life when you only have a coffee break to spare.
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Step 1
Sit, and start the timer for five minutes
Anywhere quiet enough. Phone face down. You do not need a cushion or a candle. Flow State did not come from a studio.
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Step 2
Recall the single sentence
Hold this in mind: The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time. Do not analyse it. Let it stay there the way a stone stays at the bottom of a well.
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Step 3
Find one thing today that matches it
One moment. A small one. The work is not to engineer the moment; it is to notice when it arrives. When you do, the five minutes is over.
That is the entire practice. You do not need a longer version of Flow State than this — only a more regular one.
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