The Release Phase
Lesson 22 from: Get Into Your Creative FlowSteven Kotler
The Release Phase
Lesson 22 from: Get Into Your Creative FlowSteven Kotler
Lessons
How To Watch
01:15 2Introduction to Workshop
06:12 3What is Creativity
04:58 4Mapping the Creative Process
02:57 5The Creative Personality
10:57 6Fulfill Your Creative Potential
03:09 7The Seven Creative Agreements
15:20 8Reframing
10:36The Bannister Effect
07:17 10Flow Overview
05:33 11The Science of Flow
13:31 12Your Brain on Flow
22:34 13Your Flow Profile
10:22 14Flow Triggers
08:41 15Tuning the Challenge Skill Balance
18:37 16Overview of the Flow Cycle
03:39 17The Struggle Phase
05:05 18Hacking the Grind
11:14 19Hacking the Mind
12:00 20Hacking the Most
07:38 21Sh*t to do When Sh*t Goes Wrong
10:13 22The Release Phase
03:00 23Release Triggers
17:49 24Build a Trigger List
12:38 25The MacGyver Method
08:12 26The Flow Phase
05:42 27The High Perch Experience
08:52 28Flow's Creative Trigger
07:59 29Minimal Feedback for Flow
03:54 30The Recovery Phase
10:27 31Post-Flow Visualization
04:08 32BONUS SEGMENT - The Passion Recipe
04:42Lesson Info
The Release Phase
First stage of the flow cycle is a struggle phase. The second phase is a release phase. In struggle, you are thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. Release, you are taking your mind off the problem. You are, we're gonna talk about how to do that in a second, what we're actually talking about, but you are literally going to stop thinking about all the thing that you've been focusing on all along. When we do that our brainwaves shift. They go from high beta, which is where we are when we 're in struggle, down to alpha. You also get a global release in the body of a chemical called nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a gaseous signaling molecule. It is everywhere in the body. It's also what Viagra or any of those medications do, they pump you full of nitrous oxide and, among other things. Improves your libido and your, nevermind. (laughs) When there's this global release of nitric oxide in the body, what happens is that nitric oxide pushes the stress hormones out of your system. It f...
lushes norepinephrine and cortisol out of your system and replaces them with positive, feel-good neural chemicals, like dopamine, serotonin, anandamine, and endorphins. So, anybody who's familiar with my story knows that I got into this work because I ended up curing myself of Lyme Disease with surfing, with flow. And I I couldn't figure out, like how the hell do you cure a chronic autoimmune condition? With surfing it doesn't make any frickin' sense at all. Turns out, autoimmune conditions basically means your nervous system has gone haywire. You don't know where normal is. After I had been sick for a couple of months, forget the couple of years, I had no idea where normal was. I couldn't even find it. But getting into flow resets your nervous system to normal, flushes the stress hormones out. Herbert Benson, who's the Harvard cardiologist, who mapped a lot of the in, the flow cycle [Inaudible 00:02:06]. He believes that most so called cases of spontaneous healing are actually flow states. And it's primarily because of what nitric oxide does and how it resets the nervous system. So, the second stage of the flow cycle, struggle release. This, by the way, this may look familiar to people, so this is the creative cycle. This is the cycle of creativity. It's another map and a model. This is, we've known this since the 40s and 50s. This may look very familiar. It maps directly out of the flow cycle. Preparation. Struggle. Incubation is what happens in release. Illumination is the flow state itself. And verification, the final, we call it recovery. But this is, this the map of the creative process.
Ratings and Reviews
Jeremy Richardson
I've watched and participated in many webinars and online classes, and this was by far one of the best. The depth and breadth of information that Steven covers in this class is not only really important, but he structures it in a way that is engaging and most importantly: PRACTICAL. I'm coming out of this with a clear list of ways to improve my ability to get into Flow while accomplishing all of my creative endeavors. I highly recommend this to anyone who would like to do the same!
KimberlyAnnMurphy
This is amazing. Steven is hitting so many pain point for me about reframing my fear. He is also an amazing presenter. Thank you, Steven! I am excited, I am excited, I am excited!
Isaac Freed
Utterly mind blowing. Wow. A few hours listening to Steven Kotler felt more like a few days. He has done his research, and offers so much practical application advice that I will review this material several times. Well worth it, and highly recommended. Thank you, Creative Live!