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The Flow State
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The Flow State
We know something about work and continue to learn more and develop our skills as we grow. You may have experienced, in work, music, sports, or gaming being in “The Zone”. Historically this was described as “moving without effort”. We now refer to it as The Flow State. It can be felt after the event. How much time has passed and much ??? produced, our conscience mind did not keep track or notice the passing of time. This happens most often when we are engaged in an activity that has lots of familiar time spent doing it. Think about young hanging out with their friends and how “time” just passes away. When the engagement of the activity does not require attention or thought about what you are doing, is an example of The Flow State.
Most often, this happens when enough time has been spent doing an activity and our brain patterns are well set. This is what practice is for, literally setting brain patterns with muscle memory. Eventually, you don’t have to put in as much effort or attention to achieve the same results. This feeling goes beyond our mind and into our body, this is called learning and we start at a very young age. Before we leave our mother’s womb, many can kick, suck their fingers, and toes, and respond to light and sound. The brain develops along with the body to produce functioning people that can breathe and respond to outside stimulation. The heart pumps, the diaphragm moves the lungs, our skin feels, and the eyes and ears begin to understand the world around us. Our body lives because of The Flow State, functioning without our attention.
The Flow State
Work is producing value for others. Some of the first helpful work we learn is helping our caregiver by developing the skill of eating. You may know that this can take a very long time, even into adulthood and learning how to feed for life. Feeding your body, mind, and soul. Our eyes and ears consume everything that they are exposed to. Bringing in information to our brain, storing it, and setting brain patterns to retrieve it for later use. Our brain stores stimulation to be interpreted as information and memory. Yes, children should be protected from hearing and seeing things that will teach their brain-damaging information. Like fear, hate. self-harm, recklessness, hurting others, and what was considered “everyday parenting” by normal people. Having said that, The Flow State can be triggered into a fight or flight response very early in our development. Valuable work vs negative destruction is learned and self-control is taught. This is directing our mind into actions beyond our conscience choices and our unconscious reactions. What we see, hear and how our brain has been taught to interpret that information can often go into action before we can “think” about it. Fear of a dog or care for a dog is not complicated on the surface because brain patterns have been set in certain ways. These responses happen automatically and are learned behavior. Learning to produce value for others, to be helpful… Now go help your mother.
All this learning, choices, and responding to different information is also called growing up and we have not even got to what is commonly called “work”. Producing value on command is described as work. Practice, sorting stimulation into information, and directing our bodies with our minds allow people to help or harm each other. There are some “hurting others” that are termed as work for sports and war. Defending others with force may be necessary to learn and how to apply that force is critical.
Growing up is training our mind and body to function without attention. We engage The Flow State without choice early in life and it can be learned behavior with study and practice. The first thing is training our brain to sort stimulus into information that is helpful and aligns with our chosen goals. These goals can be anything and should be focused on with trained effort to set your brain patterns with muscle memory. If you keep the same goals or desires the brain patterns with muscle memory will become stronger. A good example is playing sports or music and practicing to the point of enjoyment. The joy comes when you are performing on command with less effort to direct your body and get better results. The Flow State can be experienced during a musical performance, sporting event, video games, and by the audience. This is why we love to watch others in The Flow State perform at high levels and we get to engage our Flow State along with them. Sports and music can be productive work as entertainment and has value. We have coaches, teachers, band leaders, and conductors that should be trained to achieve positive performance to be in The Zone for high performance.
The Flow State
Let’s move forward to adult work and how is this connected with creating value. Work is helping others and we get paid for the value we give or sell to others. We have to make something that someone wants to give us money for. Parents give us food, shelter, and clothes. We in exchange grow up to do things for ourselves that our parents don’t have to do for us anymore. When we get a job, we do things for other people, so they don’t have to do them and they can do stuff that we cannot do yet. If we can get into The Flow State for the work we do, it can benefit many people and ourselves. These automated directed actions are natural and can be developed. The study, train to build strong brain patterns and muscle memory and feed yourself for success. Pay attention to when you have experienced The Flow State in the past and what may have triggered or allowed your mind and body to unlock your natural power. I have had a good experience with music, meditations, and some study books to help get into The Flow. The book I found most helpful to promote a good mindset and meditative practice while bringing many points of view and concepts together is The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price. I understand this was just a brief introduction to The Flow State and unlocking that real natural power for work and play. Our Mothers taught us during our growth in her womb and we continue to learn, grow and implement the basics of life.
Dr. Andrew Huberman, may have discovered the brain mechanisms that are part of The Flow State.
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Surfaces and Supports
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Surfaces and Supports
Surfaces
Surfaces, desks, tables, or benches are what support your equipment and arms while working on it. Some people in the last 10-15 years, work with small data entry devices that don’t need large surfaces to support them. Think about a laptop computer on a cafe table or a tablet held in your hand. But, most long-term work is done with something holding up your device. There are some basics, wood, laminate, metal, poly-fiber-something, or a door. It should be flat, able to insulate you from heat-producing electronics, and be adjustable enough to help your body to be comfortable. This is also part of ergonomics, the mechanics of what your body does while doing your work. The depth of the surface will allow you to be closer or further back from your computer, think about a movie theater and how close you like to be to the screen. Power and Data cables can be routed and organized with grommet holes in the work surface.
Supports
The next idea is what is holding up your surface. Traditionally there were tables (without drawers) and desks (with drawers) and machine stands. The bases and legs sat at a fixed height, moved on wheels, and may or may not have been attached to the top. The purpose is to support your work in the best way, to position your body and equipment. It may have been machine stands were the first to be adjustable, to position the item to be worked on correctly near the tools. Further progress keeps replacing human hands with machine supports and keeps human body parts safe. Robotics can be seen in major manufacturing all over the globe.
Set the furniture and focus on the production
Back to people and our creative work. Ultimately, the furniture you use should fade out of our conscience as we look through our equipment and into our work, what we are building. Use what you have, innovate/gather what works better later and focus on your work. Much of the technology we use today was created on folding tables, cheap little chairs, pizza delivery, and small cartons of pricy ice cream. Real products may require some heavy-duty bench work, heavy-gauge base supports, 120v electrical built-in, lights, and ESD rated for electronic work.
Time Marches On
As time passes and bodies change… hopefully, our brains figure out how to help. The height-adjustable table has become a standard item in many tech workplaces today and many times can be purchased separately. Table bases can be used with almost any surface, screwed, double-stick foam taped, or clamped to keep them together. Drawer units can be used for supports, like a desk or post legs with a drawer set on the other end. Listen to your body and support it how you can. If you have been doing lots of computer work, you may have noticed the surface edge and how to avoid it. My personal preference is to rest my forearms on the surface to get the pressure off my wrists and elbows. Gone are the days of the box monitor on the desktop, because… flat screens RULE. Robotics has given us the ability to use mechanical arms to hold stuff, to bring the screen to “just the right spot”.
Surfaces and Supports
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Ergonomic Adjustable Chairs
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Ergonomic Adjustable Chairs
The furniture that will most affect your work is what you sit on, subtle or irritating, your chair matters. Today we will talk about what chairs do and some different ergonomic theories. Ergonomic means “designed to the task”, so a folding chair is ergonomic for that task of folding chair. What are you going to use the chair for, how long, what are your body size, work style, and any medical needs? Please seek professional help for health issues, lower back pain, or continued discomfort that may cause serious damage to your body. Listen to your body, and do not be afraid of playing with adjustments through the day and for different tacks. I found that being able to lean back while talking on the phone was helpful. Many modern chairs come with a seat slider for front-to-back depth adjustment. Also, some chairs come in small, medium, or large.
History
The history goes back to 1505 with wheels and height adjustment. Over time urban work changed with more people working in factories, and office equipment began to improve. Engineers began to study how health and body stress could be improved with better office chairs. Several advances were made in the 1800s, including padded upholstery, swivel castor wheels, and back adjustment.
Herman Miller Company
Herman Miller company designed the first modern human-centered chair for office work, the Ergon Chair in 1976 by Bill Stumpf.
“Philosopher and writer William Gass defined comfort as the “lack of awareness,” and Stumpf latched onto this definition as a goal for what could be achieved through ergonomic design. But he extended comfort beyond the physical to the psychological and emotional. As a prelude to his first chair design for Herman Miller, Stumpf laid out the criteria for comfort, several of which have been reimagined by artist Mike Perry in the animation that accompanies this story. These ideas come from his Ergon concept book, and were key to his proposal outlining the world’s first chair designed with ergonomic performance as a criterion.” History of the Ergon chair, Herman Miller company. This became what is called today, passive ergonomics, the idea that the chair should follow the body and supportively move with it. Worker productivity has always been important, even when the whip was a main item of influence. Most of the Western Civilization has come a long way and investment in humans is getting more value.
Ergonomic Adjustable Chair Mechanisms
Leggett and Platt’s Northfield Metal Products popularized adjustable seats and back angles for another type of office chair. This helped fit the chair to each person and the type of work they were doing. At the time it was very complicated…seat, back, and arm height – forward / backward seat and back tilt, seat depth slider, free rocking, and tilt lock. Lots of paddles, ” do you want a 3-paddle chair or 7-paddle chair?”. Adjustable lumbar support, headrest support, and the whole spinal column from neck to tailbone. The idea is that the chair should support and hold your body in good posture. #3 ergonomic adjustable chairs. Adjustable arms have made innovative improvements as well. Height, width, forward, back, angles, tilt, and full-on fold-away arms for gun holsters. Avery good company with over a million user reviews with their employer’s names listed is Autonomous and they do a great job supporting your work.
Made to Move
Further research revealed that our bodies were designed to move and that movement keeps our fluids moving as well. I think the HÅG brand put it best “the most comfortable position is the next one”. They developed inBalance technology for continuous movement while sitting. Some studies suggest simple contoured wood seats and backs work best to promote a movement that allows for better blood flow. Old things are new again.
Closed Cell Foam
Over the years I have enjoyed firm, closed-cell molded foam chairs with contoured seat/backshells, waterfall front seat edge, and a forward tilt setting. The forward tilt allows me to shift my weight from my lower back to my legs and a knee tilt mechanism works best for me. A knee tilt mechanism has the pivot point at the front of the seat rather than the center of the seat and keeps the front edge in the same place with the back lowering. When the pivot point is in the center, the front edge raises and adds pressure behind the knees. Even with a waterfall curved front edge on the seat, there is still added pressure constricting blood flow.
“I tried one”
Then 1994 happened, Herman Miller released the Aeron Chair or Borg chair, because resistance is futile. It took the tech world by striking looks, environmental materials, this new keeping your body cool thing, and just a better work chair. The Herman Miller crew with Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf has set a new and lasting standard again. This was the start of recruiters talking about office furniture to potential employees. The Aeron chair became the #1 amenity that was so trendy that people did not even know why they wanted to sit on it, but they had to have it.
Trending…
The Mesh chair trend is well established now, with lots of cheap copycats and some good innovations. Work seating is continually developing and buyers still want something new. Treadmill walking desks, inflatable workout ball chairs, seat pad on a pole seating, urethane shop style stools and anything goes seating. #3 Ergonomic Adjustable Chairs are going to be around as long as people sit while they work or play. The “gamer chair” market keeps growing and the main value seems to be themed chairs, licensed media characters, sports teams, and video games.
Chairs are like shoes and need to be “tried on”, you will not get great results from YouTube reviews.
Final Thoughts, movement is good for the body, comfort, and support.
- What will the seating be used for?
- What size person of persons will use it?
- Training of adjustments and best practices.
- Cleaning and maintenance.
- How long is the expected useful life of the product?
- Multi-worker use, shift work, and multi-purpose use.
- Environmental expectations and end-of-life plan.
Ergonomic Adjustable Chairs
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