Latest / Feel Really Good: Empowering Meditations / Deep Focus for a Calm Mind
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- 0:04SPEAKER_00: Welcome to your meditation session.
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: This is a space where we'll be practicing building our focused attention back up.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you,
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: but I have certainly noticed my own attention span waning in recent years.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: And so many of us blame ourselves or chalk it up to an idea
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: that there must be something wrong with us,
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: as though it should be easy to hold our attention on one thing at a time.
- 0:35SPEAKER_00: And yes, maybe it could be in a world that helps us train our brains for that.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: But in the world that we live in today,
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: we are bombarded with information that makes its way into our awareness so quickly
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: that we often don't even consciously realize that we're taking
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: in something new almost every second.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: What we practice becomes stronger.
- 1:03SPEAKER_00: So if we're practicing splitting our attention,
- 1:07SPEAKER_00: doing multiple things at once,
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: and moving from one piece of information to the next every few seconds,
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: we're going to get really good at inviting distractions in
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: to keep our shorter attention spans occupied.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: But when we practice slowing down, softening into a moment long enough for it to breathe,
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: We can re-teach our bodies and minds that urgency doesn't have to be the way we move
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: through our lives.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: We can re-learn that it is safe to sit back and smell the roses.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: And our minds will actually serve us in a much more robust way
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: when they don't feel like they're running at 90 miles an hour all the time.
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: Let's practice.