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Dr. Amishi Jha on How to Train a Peak Mind, Find Your Focus & Own Your Attention

The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

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Mindfulness Is a Wisdom Tradition That Helps People Survive Human Suffering

i like to think of it as the metaphor of a floodlight. Or sometimes, if i'm talking to people in t ukay, they'll sae a fog light,. But the point is, whereas the flashlight is privileging certain content over other content, the floodlight is really privilegiing cause and effect. The second system of attention is almost the exact opposite. It's broad receptive. It's not privileging anything. You don't want to be narrowing your focus on things that you've no idea are happening right now. And we get like a richness just to say, in the same way that you could see beauty when you point that flashlight of attention, you can also

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