Your Attention Is Everything!
- Our attention gets hijacked by everything from stress in our lives to the ding of our phones
- Meditation is about paying attention to the present moment with awareness and without emotional reactivity
- Mindfulness training can be broken down into two categories: focused attention and open monitoring
- Focused attention exercises cultivate your brain's ability of focusing on one single object, like one's breath
- Another focused-attention exercise is mindful walking
- A body scan is essentially taking a flashlight and directing it to whatever you choose
- Open monitoring is about monitoring your attention to a particular object or object in space
