Flow Unleashed
Flow Unleashed
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Interested in HUMAN performance? Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest science and practice? Join Cameron Norsworthy, scientist and coach to multiple world champions, as he unpacks key topics to peak performance, deep engagement, and life satisfaction.
After a career-ending injury as an athlete, I became fascinated by human experience; why in one moment, we can be feeling and acting our very best, only to struggle and stress moments later. I studied sports and performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and life-hacking, and did my PhD in advancing our understanding and application of flow. I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a coach, and found my life’s purpose in helping some of the world’s best athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals find their flow. My drive to keep learning and growing genesis an organisation to innovate human performance and set the standards for performance coaching. In this podcast, I share everything that I am working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day working with elite professionals. Meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics to help you evolve, raise your game when it matters, and help others to find success.
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Focuses on human performance, mental fitness, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with episodes covering topics such as the science of habits, mastering character in leadership, and transforming anxiety into engagement through performance psychology.
Interested in HUMAN performance? Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest science and practice? Join Cameron Norsworthy, scientist and coach to multiple world champions, as he unpacks key topics to peak performance, deep engagement, and life satisfaction.
After a career-ending injury as an athlete, I became fascinated by human experience; why in one moment, we can be feeling and acting our very best, only to struggle and stress moments later. I studied sports and performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and life-hacking, and did my PhD in advancing our understanding and application of flow. I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a coach, and found my life’s purpose in helping some of the world’s best athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals find their flow. My drive to keep learning and growing genesis an organisation to innovate human performance and set the standards for performance coaching. In this podcast, I share everything that I am working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day working with elite professionals. Meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics to help you evolve, raise your game when it matters, and help others to find success.
Cameron interviews breathwork teacher and author Christopher Gladwell about how breathing links thought, physiology, perception, and performance, arguing pain is natural but suffering is optional and rooted in the stories we tell. Gladwell describes his path from a traumatic childhood to running, martial arts, injury recovery, and deep study of yoga and meditation, and critiques formulaic breathwork that adds mental control rather than responding to physiology. He explains breathing’s cellular purpose (oxygen enabling ATP production), how stress thinking shifts breathing, carbon dioxide, and oxygen delivery, and how nasal, low, slow, abdominal breathing can rapidly shift emotional state via the limbic system and vagal pathways. They discuss cultivating embodied intelligence through feeling, movement, and awareness, reframing “flow” as our natural state, addressing attention conditioning, and viewing ADHD/neurodiversity as attentional variability that can be trained through rhythmic attention cycling. Gladwell’s practical takeaway is awareness of breathing and restoring functional nasal breathing before advanced practices.
00:00 Pain Versus Suffering
00:41 Meet Christopher Gladwell
02:28 Names And Identity
05:03 Origins And Childhood
06:59 Running Breath And Yoga
09:39 Daily Practice And Work
11:02 Breathwork Myths Today
11:55 Why Humans Breathe Wrong
15:18 Why We Breathe At All
16:28 Thought Addiction And Breath
19:25 CO2 Oxygen And Spiral
22:15 Nasal Breathing Benefits
27:22 Limbic System Explained
30:02 Breath Calms Emotions
31:08 Gut Brain Vagus Pathway
32:18 Body Intelligence Wonder
38:30 Flow Awareness Attention
41:39 Pain Versus Suffering
44:58 Breath Awareness Practice
48:04 ADHD As Superpower
53:22 Functional Breathing Basics
55:14 Books Films Longevity
57:37 Being Flow Art
01:00:52 Final Takeaways Wrap
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