I believe the flow state is essentially an active meditation. One accesses it by stilling the blah blah thought mind and ego enough to allow the subconscious t

I believe the flow state is essentially an active meditation. One accesses it by stilling the blah blah thought mind and ego enough to allow the subconscious to freely flow into action. There are plenty of ways to do this, in fact I've found boring repetition is great for it (I play piano). Above all else though, meditation is probably the best practice, since that trains one to be still enough to allow deeper parts of the mind to "flow" freer whilst maintaining enough focus that one isn't derailed by every possible distraction that could arise. And I also agree with you on the "muscle" training throughout the day. This state is always available, and the trick to being a baddass at life is to be able to find it NO MATTER WHAT else is going on. The only way to train that is to do in distracting situations. This is why I like yoga, because there's a bunch of other crap going on that I have to "overcome" with focus and stillness of mind. Only then will the asana make sense and I'll access that state, and that same training makes me better at it for rest of my daily activities. Kind like how doing math also makes you good a solving problems in general, or reading/writing literature makes you more emotionally intelligent.