12 States of Attention Rapidly.
Spend 5 second in each state. This exercise takes a minute to do and so it’s easy to find time to do it daily—in line at the grocery store, stopped at a red light…
See everything that’s in your visual field.
Notice one small or distant item in front of you.
Let all sounds in your environment come into your ears.
Focus your hearing on one sound.
Feel the skin of your entire body.
Feel just the soles of your feet.
Imagine a beautiful sunset.
Imagine a bird flying by.
Imagine an orchestra tuning up.
Just hear the trumpet.
Notice how relaxed your body is.
Notice the feeling in the center of your chest.
Practice every day. Create a script with one or two words for each state and memorize these 12 words. For instance:
room
light switch
all sounds
one sound
all skin
soles
sunset
bird
orchestra
trumpet
relax
chest
If you get bored, change the content.
When you can move from state to state rapidly, practice them in a different order.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
12 states of attention: rapidly moving through them
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I like the idea of using a script to quickly practice the 12 states in a particular context.
ReplyDeletethanks, katie! katie told me later about a shortcut she found. remember the external states for internal states. for instance, do visual external broad for 5 seconds, then close your eyes and remember what you saw for 5 seconds.
ReplyDeletethis not only strengthens pathways, it also strengthens memory.
good work, katie!