# @rainbowsinthedarkent on Facebook

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://facebook.com/1425257249434462/videos/728517954237627
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54961721-rainbowsinthedarkent-facebook
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- **Posted:** 2019-08-09T04:15:01.000+00:00

## Caption

Rant below ⬇️
Song ID: @koansound - This Time Around
Poi from: @ultrapoi
#ultrapoi #orbpoi #teamfof #flowonfire #contactpoi 
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The crazy thing about flow (I'm talking like real, macro Flow State here 🤓) is that is has the potential to induce experiences of momentary egolessness. 🤯 
This is a result of your brain restricting energy flow to the areas that are essential to performing the task at hand. The first area of the brain to lose power is the prefrontal cortex. This is the part of your brain responsible for all complex "human" thought processes such as: time, planning, reasoning, self conception, and social functions. (This is known as transient hypofrontality if you're curious... 🤓)
🌈🌈🌈 with me so far? 🌈🌈🌈
There's not much I can do to truly explain the experience of feeling the weight of my cognitive filter being lifted. But it happened. In one moment, my entire framework for understanding my reality melted away. 😶  (Video unrelated to this experience... had this experience highlining.)
Maybe you've had this experience.. but if not, imagine, if you can, EVERYTHING that you understand to be true... your perception of yourself, past experiences, future plans, your ENTIRE system of understanding, suddenly becomes meaningless. 😳
It's very possible that the natural reaction in that moment of complete vulnerability would be to freak the fuck out.. but my instinct was to do exactly that. I needed to do everything possible in that moment to re-shield myself.
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So here comes the tricky part. Putting it back together... After having this experience of egolessness, and returning to a reality where ego is essential to survival, I have an opportunity to reframe the frameworks of understanding that I previously held on to, that no longer serve me, or cling to what is comfortable and familiar.
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I take the voice in my head far too seriously sometimes and it is nice to have movement practices and supportive friends to lean on when I need a reality check. Flow is about existing in that emptiness.
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@geenajackson you have been with me through it all, and there is nothing I can do to fully express my love and gratitude for you.

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flowonfire, teamfof, contactpoi, orbpoi, ultrapoi

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