Thank you for filling out the Flow Profile Quiz to discover how you can bring more flow into your life. Understanding your Flow Profile is an important first step. With the information below you’ll gain more clarity on what flow is, how you can bring more of it into your life, and what pitfalls to avoid as you move deeper into a flow practice.
The profile that follows is just the beginning when it comes to understanding flow and the processes that can make it more readily available to you. To really understand your Flow Profile, we encourage you to explore the videos and content on the Flow Genome Project website, in addition to the series of emails we’ll be sending over the coming weeks. These will all help you find the perfect mix of information, process, and practice to live a life of flow.
You: You experience flow as a solitary journey. You tend to enter the Flow State by way of creative, reflective, even soothingly repetitive work. Your mind wanders, your nervous system relaxes deeply, and you channel inspiration without inhibition.You’re able to tolerate and even thrive in the daily hustle and bustle, but a part of you craves stillness. You crave time to return to your sanctuary for rejuvenation. You find yourself seeking out times of the day — early mornings, or late evenings — during which you can feel free from conflicts and demands and pursue the uninterrupted concentration you value most.
Flow Hacks: How you engage with Flow ranges widely and defies easy categorization. You may pursue classical arts, such as painting, pottery, or music. You may be drawn to more contemporary forms of expression like digital photography, gaming, coding. You’re a “maker.” You might seek gentle communion with nature. You might prefer hiking, gardening, birdwatching, or working with animals to more high-speed pursuits.
Caution: Your particular sensitivity to a modern “always on” society might make you deeply out of place. It’s important that you make the dedicated effort it may take in order for you to carve out time for those experiences that give you the restorative Flow you need. In an age as commercialized as ours, you may feel defensive about your pursuits. Remind yourself that writing poetry, for instance, is a perfectly worthwhile endeavor, even if you never seek publication. It’s okay to sculpt or to ride horses, even if you never “win” anything from doing so. Your passions are serving an essential purpose! They keep you balanced and energized. They increase your resilience, your immunity, your creativity, and your optimism. That’s more than enough reason to continue!
Pro-Tip: Given your relatively gentle nature and your rich inner life, you might feel like you’re less physically gifted than others. You might not have excelled in team sports, and you may shun the vigorous and challenging in favor of the contemplative and restorative. Your ability to cope with the fast pace of the world around you might be bolstered by cardio and strength training. You might sign up for a fun run. Test your boundaries mentally, build some muscle physically. You’ll find you’ll fast become more resilient in your day-to-day, and be rewarded with more valuable, focused experiences in the Flow State.
