attention
The kind of attention we pay actually alters the world: we are, literally, partners in creation
from The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
attention
my tendency’s been to fixate on what’s difficult, painful, or scary in my experience, with a sincere desire to improve or change them. lately, i’m convinced there’s a better option: to shift my attention to what's good, beautiful, and pleasurable & allow those to saturate my life
nibras - offline till 15 Jul - ꩜ نبراس ◡̈x.comonly when we have shifted into the rest-and-digest response of the nervous system will our brains allow us to reclaim our attention, access the power of our imagination, and unlock our subconscious.
James Doty • Mind Magic
the importance of escaping survival mode and fear in order to reclaim and control your attention
“Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.”
—Epictetus
Gurwinder • Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age
- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
I paid attention to things I liked to do → again it starts from attention
Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and because it is also required to make any other mental events—such as remembering, thinking, feeling, and making decisions—happen there, it is useful to think of it as psychic energy. Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
“We create ourselves by how we invest this energy.”
"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world."
– Dr. Iain McGilchrist
