Flow state meditation with the aim of becoming aware of awareness itself can increase your chances to enter a flow state during activities in which you would like to enter a flow state, as well as during other activities that you might not expect a flow state to occur or be of value. Additionally, this type of meditation will make life in between activities have more of a present moment flow to it.

Awareness itself is perhaps an under-appreciated and little-known common denominator of flow states and meditation. Regardless of what happens to the brain within a flow state and meditation, pure present moment awareness is ultimately where you’re going.

In order to better see the value of a strategy for flow state meditation, it is helpful to explore the conditions for a flow state, the brain during a flow state, and the relationship of both to meditation.

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In daily life before we learn to meditate, emotions that don’t serve us can be so ubiquitous in our experience that they go unnoticed or assumed to be a required part of life. Stress can be experienced as a constant or a default state. We ride emotional volatility like it is the rightful controller of our behavior and experience, not knowing that it doesn’t have to be. Even more removed is the idea that meditation for emotional healing is possible.

When we start out with meditation, we become aware of how hard it is to control our thoughts and emotions. As the process unfolds, we start to more closely notice the content of our thoughts and how they cause emotions. The growth of our present moment awareness can make emotions that don’t serve us well quite acute and discouraging.

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