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Focus & Attention

Distraction is the default setting for most of us. These articles and practices help you train your attention, stay present with what matters, and work with a wandering mind instead of fighting it.
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Focus & Attention
Brain Overload 

Restless, impulsive, distracted, forgetful: we all experience those things. But for 16 million Americans, this cocktail of brain struggles can do real harm. What is ADHD? Do you have it? What can be done? Read More 

  • Katherine Ellison
  • July 15, 2016
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Focus & Attention
Athletes Can’t Get By on Grit Alone 

It takes more than dogged persistence and a combative mindset to hit peak performance. If the game is 90 percent mental and emotional, then mindfulness has a role to play in getting athletes prepped for their best. Read More 

  • Jason Dorland
  • July 13, 2016
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Focus & Attention
Manage Your Attention, Not Your Time 

With so many stimuli competing for attention, any hope for making it through the day without our brains feeling like scrambled eggs rests on being more conscious of how you parse attention over specific tasks. Here are three ways to keep your focus flowing. Read More 

  • Jeremy Hunter
  • July 5, 2016
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Focus & Attention
How to Curb Self-Defeating Habits 

Explore these five mindfulness practices to help you uncover and untangle from the feedback loop of negative thought patterns. Read More 

  • Dawa Tarchin Phillips
  • June 15, 2016
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Focus & Attention
Driving to Distraction 

At any given daylight moment, as many as 660,000 American drivers are using electronic devices. Twenty-three percent of all auto collisions involve mobile phones. Distracted drivers not only make for frightening statistics, author Jeff Greenwald asserts that they have become the mindful driving challenge du jour: How to cope with drivers so mindless that they are willing to put their lives—and others—at risk. Read More 

  • Jeff Greenwald
  • June 10, 2016
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