Orientation Adjustment Area

Another part that slows down during flow is your orientation adjustment area, the part of the brain that lets you assess your position in the world relative to other objects around you.

This is what causes surfers to feel “as if they’re one with the wave” or writers to just “think their words onto the paper.”

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