Just a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying being in the present. Yet somewhere between then and now I've totally forgotten how to do that. The irony of that last statement is not lost on me. Just like that, out of nowhere I found it again. All it took was taking a few moments to sit down and do absolutely nothing. Once I got the hang of it, it became easier to be present with what I was doing. The feeling of flow is why I love motorcycles or programming. It's how I could spend hours on the motorcycle completely focused. I'd forgotten about that. Probably why monks spend a lifetime in meditation. They have figured out how to tap into flow. I can appreciate why they do what they do. I've experienced it quite a few times during programming, when I'm doing something just a little bit out of my comfort zone and code just flow through my fingers. It's fucking awesome. I'm not even trying to program, it's just happening. I find myself having an out of body experience, it sound woo woey but it's like nothing else. I got a glimpse of it as I was writing this. The strange thing is that as soon as you realize you are in a state of flow you snap out of it. To get back in you need to let go of how good it feels and just get back into whatever it is that got you into it in the first place.
I've been able to recreate this a few times. Listening to a track on repeat works quite often. There are also sound tracks specifically made for state of flow too. I thought I had more to say but I guess that's it. Not sure about adding a count to the title, I think I'm going to take it off. It might have the contrary effect, it's best to do things and look at metrics too often. It's what I do when streaming, it helps me with saddle time.