JAMIE WHEAL: How to grow your mind and tap into FLOW state

Follow @MichaelTrainer and @JamieWheal and tag us #peakmind #stealingfire with your thoughts on the episode! PEAK MIND brought to you by: http://www.foursigmatic.com/PEAK for 15% off http://www.organifi.com “PEAKMIND” for 20% off 4:00 Jamie Wheal introduces flow 5:40 Being deeply connected to the present moment 6:00 What is flow state? 7:00 What are the ways everyday people can access flow? 7:15 Sleep, quality food, movement, and embodied cognition EAT, REST, MOVE, BREATHE 8:00 Virtue of oxygen in shifting stage of awareness - self-aware breathing 8:55 Control of respiration key to flow 9:11 Olympians and their tools in breathing and visualization 9:46 Wim Hoff - episode coming soon :) 10:23 Big wave surfing and flow state 11:18 Vagal nerve, and coherence affect through breath control - cascade of effects 11:49 If there was one thing you could add to your life and one thing you could take away to have the greatest effect, what would it be? 12:45 Virtue of Deep focused breathing and focused reflection/gratitude 13:25 Neuroscience of gratitude - and keeps us in the present moment 14:00 “Take the hit as a gift” 14:50 Challenge of traditional morning routine 15:50 Keep phone in airplane mode 16:11 Don’t think or say anything that you don’t want to be more true 17:20 Personal recipe for flow 17:50 Hire to cover your weak spots 18:40 What is the Flow Dojo? 20:00 How to upgrade 21:29 Flow state is accessible to all of us, mindset is the key 21:46 Difference between fixed and growth mindset 23:18 Always do the hard thing, the obstacle is the way 28:00 Training the muscle of your brain to create more space between 29:25 How to be at cause rather than at affect - watch your energy 30:00 Focus on the levers that have the greatest consequences for you 32:20 9 Trillion dollars into the church of the ecstatic - to get out of ourselves 32:25 Energy spent on state shifting activities 33:00 The agony of being 35:22 Ecstacies 38:20 Virtue of weekend to a productive week 28:30 Hedonic scheduling - how to organize your pleasure 38:50 Sex, drugs, and rock and roll - fastest route with lowest success route 39:00 Sabbath practice - schedule blow outs 39:50 What is the game? 40:00 Periods of forced abstinence 4-6 weeks off pleasure seeking behaviors 40:20 Fallow the Field 41:30 Middle structures and the “middle path” 41:46 Practice partners are essential 41:50 Many of the most liberating partnerships are based in expansive journeys - virtue of couples on the path 42:30 “There are no single presidents” 43:03 Ecstatic states give you access to the data all the way down 43:30 Paradox on ecstaies, not going too far 23:50 “Summiting is optional, getting home is mandatory” 45:00 Variety of options on bests - Jitterbug Perfume, Led Zeppelin 3 side B, 45:50 "We are not expected to finish the work, nor are we excused from it” - Talmud 46:55 Advice to self 47:30 Advice to self 15 years from now, legacy question - keep moving, keep writing 50:00 Legacy and Family Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube