What if you could enter a calm and focused state where you feel entirely absorbed and productive, without any effort at all? Neuroscientist Julia Christensen is here to investigate.
If you’ve ever experienced the blissful feeling of being fully immersed in a project, of ideas and solutions coming to you naturally, or of getting lost in thought when cooking, playing music, or dancing, then you’ve accessed the flow state. Often, we stumble into it, but what if you could access and unlock its healing and energizing powers whenever needed?
After an injury derailed her career as a ballet dancer, Julia Christensen was unable to dance as a mode of expression, and felt more stressed and less energetic. She realized then that creative expression has a deeper impact than entertainment and embarked on a new career in psychology. Now working as a neuroscientist, she’s spent the past decade unlocking the secrets of flow, mapping out what happens in our brains when we create and play, and how both can soothe and sharpen the mind.
