Elite Performance - Diagnostics

We are alpha-testing (early stage testing) the prototype of an autonomic performance assessment.

What This Is

The Autonomic Nervous System is the neural architecture of the mindbody system, and the most potent leverage for taking charge of your wellbeing.

In many performance applications, from public speaking to creative performance to elite athletics, we reach our highest levels of performance when we enter flow states. A flow state, often referred to as 'being in the zone' is a state of peak performance characterized by complete absorption and focus in an activity, leading to deep enjoyment, high productivity, and a loss of self-consciousness and sense of time. Athletes in flow states often talk about a ball looking larger and moving more slowly, or a feeling of being unable to miss. When creatives are in a flow state, they often have a sense of effortlessly sensing exactly what comes next, as it is arising. While there has been considerable research done on the mechanics of flow, there is less understanding of how to recover flow if we deviate from it, or what the particular autonomic signatures of flow are for any individual performer.

For the past couple of years, Hearth Science has been studying elite performance in professional and elite junior tennis, and in executive leadership contexts. From research in these domains we have extrapolated a set of principles about the autonomic composition of flow (Flow Architecture), as well as noted patterned individual variations in how different performers find and sustain flow. Our assessment tool is the first iteration of a tool that applies this research into the domain of enhancing human performance for individual performers.

Flow composition for individual performers explores your individual autonomic center of gravity for achieving flow states. Flow states are salutogenic, and by definition coordinate all three of your autonomic neurological systems. Yet some people find more flow when their connection systems are centered, some when their movement systems are centered, and some when their grounding systems are centered. Understanding your own flow architecture gives you actionable information about how to more rapidly enter flow states (increases their trainability), as well as how to effectively problem-solve if you get deviated from your flow composition.

At the elite level of performance in tennis, where a serve is traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour, and players are aiming for targets the size of a tea saucer, ability to govern flow composition is the difference between hitting a shot that lands just inside the line, and one that lands six inches outside of it.

In creative and leadership contexts, flowstates allow us to effortlessly navigate self, relationships, and the field of others, moving with clarity and grounded intuition.

How This Works

This is an alpha test of the product. On registration, you will receive a CODE to unlock the web page where you will take the assessment. You will fill out the assessment and send it to us. Within ten days, we will email you a customized report detailing your results, with performance enhancement recommendations. The report will include:

• •A framework for understanding elite performance in terms of flow composition
• •An analysis of your particular flow composition
• •A set of recommendations for deepening access to flowstates
• •A set of recommendations for returning to flow when you get deviated from it.

If we have questions or need additional information from you in our analysis we will contact you directly by email. The price of the assessment tool is considerably less than retail pricing because 1) this is an early stage product, and 2) your data will help us iterate on the tool. There are a finite number of alpha tests available. If the product is out of stock, we have sold out of these first stage tests.