Using flow for personal gain

This blog and the books focus on ‘self improvement’. However, once you can dip into and out of ‘flow’ at will, you have the option to ‘weaponise’ this ability.

I suggest you practice being in a flow state for days at a time before you choose to ‘weaponise’ this ability.

Weaponisation is simple enough, you merely intentionally disrupt other peoples flow. When calm and relaxed we are all generally in a flow state. Most are in a passive flow state as few people have the necessary personal awareness to be in an active flow state.

Disrupting another persons passive flow state involves creating doubt by asking simple questions. Such as ‘are you sure?’ and ‘what if you are wrong?’. You could increase the disruption by inducing fear. Psychopaths use these techniques quite naturally, so if you know one watch them carefully.

People often have quite intense incidents which cause them emotional turmoil. If you can provide an opening for them to retell the story, they will ‘re-live’ it and the emotions will resurface and will likely sabotage their own flow.

When in a flow state, you act and react as your true self. You are being the best version of you that you could possibly be. When this flow is disrupted you will behave in ways that you will wish you hadn’t. You will be compromising yourself and be disadvantaged. You will have to spend some time undoing the damage you have done to your reputation. Rather than spending time achieving your goals.

With the ability to actively go into a flow state you have many advantages over those who are not even aware of this ability.

1) You are enhanced

2) You can more effectively prevent others disrupting your active and passive flow

3) You can choose to disrupt others flow or reinforce it.

If you are unable to see the value in this then you haven’t grasped the heart of my blog posts or books.

You don’t need to understand what I have written. I humbly ask that you don’t try to understand it. In understanding something you risk fixing it in your mind. This is fine for arithmetic but the real world is not fixed and neither are the people in it. Flow, as the name suggests, is not fixed.

I mentioned psychopaths earlier but narcissists and others with low empathy for others all quite naturally use ‘flow disruption’ techniques. Simply being aware of this offers substantial protection from it. Those with normal or even high levels of empathy won’t be comfortable with the idea of disrupting another persons flow. That is quite natural and nothing to actively attempt to dampen down. ‘Flow disruption’ is simply a weapon you have which you can choose to deploy or not. Know this, those with empathy have the potential to be far more adept at flow disruption than the most ‘effective’ psychopath or narcissist.

As weapons can be used for both defence and attack, it may be worth noting that you can discourage a psychopath from repeatedly attempting to disrupt your flow by actively disrupting theirs.

Flow disruption is probably something to use sparingly, if at all. The opposite of flow disruption, is flow enhancement. You can choose to enhance the flow of your family, friends and colleagues at will. Simply choose to keep them calm and balanced whilst maintaining your own active flow.

I hope that you found this post to be concise and useful. In reading it, you are supposed to keep pausing to critically think about whatever pops into your mind. Understanding the post is of little value. Being able to grasp the concepts and make use of them is down to you.

 

You take care