Neuroscientist Amishi Jha explains why overloading our attention can harm us, and how practicing mindfulness provides us with the space we need to find focus.
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When we multitask, our concentration levels deplete. Taking 10 minutes to meditate could help keep you focused, Daniel Goleman explains in this video from BigThink.
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Wherever attention goes the rest of the brain follows—in some sense, attention is your brain’s boss. But is it a good boss and can we train it?
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Meditation teacher Will Kabat-Zinn explores how meditation allows us to stumble upon something we've always wanted: a settled, stable mind in the midst of the chaos of life. We live at the mercy of our thoughts and thought patterns, he says, and as we begin to cultivate attention—which requires us to move counter to much of the mainstream direction of our society and economy—we gain a little stability.
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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.
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When it comes to our phones, it's not just fear of missing out (FOMO) that keeps us attached and scrolling with abandon. It's fear of keeping up (FOKU).Â
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Travel can be thrilling, challenging, disorienting, but for Pico Iyer there is peace in unfamiliar places.
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As much as we'd all like to escape from our technology, oftentimes the demands of work don't give us the choice. Elisha Goldstein gives advice on how to use our digital devices to actually support us in our mindfulness practice.
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