#Findfocus reviews series
I’m Ali Pattillo and this is STRATEGY, a series packed with actionable tips to help you make the most out of your life, career, and finances. In doing so, you can temporarily lift the fog of distraction and zero in on the joys and challenges around you. Instead, with simple and consistent mindfulness training, it’s possible to bring awareness to how you’re paying attention.
“Your life is what you pay attention to.” HarperOne/Amishi JhaĪccording to Jha, the path to paying better attention isn’t about clearing the mind. She continues: “All these fundamental building blocks of what it means to live a life require attention.” That’s because attention fuels cognitive operations like learning, thinking, deliberating, problem-solving, and decision-making, as well as emotion regulation and social connection, Jha adds.
“Your life is what you pay attention to,” Jha tells Inverse. Jha recently outlined the ways we can harness the brain’s attention system to live better in her book, Peak Mind : Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day. That’s the science-backed strategy Amishi Jha, director of contemplative neuroscience and professor of psychology at the University of Miami, suggests. There is an antidote to distracted living: Pay attention like your life depends on it - because it does. No matter how hard we try, we simply can’t win the battle for the brain’s attention. Helpful.Īdd in push notifications, media alerts, emails, and social media pings, and you can understand why some experts say we are living in an “age of distraction.” These constant lures gunning for our attention can keep us from pursuing our goals, maintaining meaningful relationships, and performing our best at work. Rather than honing in on the present, it ruminates on the past or tries to predict the future - often, it spends its time on these erroneous thought patterns while we’re consciously trying to concentrate on what is actually going on. The human brain hums with constant “ chatter.” For about half of our awake time, the mind wanders.
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