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How to ACTUALLY find your 'flow' state

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and how it will guide you to your purpose...

I once had a psychology professor say to me ‘where you find flow, you find purpose’. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard the concept of ‘flow’ - this mythical, magical, almost obnoxious state that people brought up when they spoke about the things they loved most. I had yet to find my flow state. It sounded rather make believe. The term ‘flow’ was first introduced by Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the 1970s. In his words, ‘the best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... the best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is…

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