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Stretching Time with Focused Perception - Lisa Broderick - ND3740

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The Opposite of Focus Perception

In the 70s, a Czech scientist named Itzok Bentov created an experiment where you one would look at a second hand on a clock or watch face in a way that was undisturbed. He didn't call it focused perception and he didn't know how to meditate interestingly enough. But go away in one's mind to the most vivid, engulfing, sensory-rich experience you could imagine. And when you come back to reality, you startle yourself back into the present moment. So that's an example of focused perception used for the stopping clock exercise. Lisa says focus perception is not the same as selective attention.

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