2. To understand:
What is your attention?
Why pay attention to your attention?
What are the benefits of cultivating your
attention?
What can you do to begin cultivating your
attention?
What can you assess for the next 30 days?
3.
4. To tend to; to reach toward –Latin
It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and
vivid form, of one out of what seem several
simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.
--William James
It is the focus of awareness on one thing at any
particular moment. –Lisa Capa
It is the beam of awareness. –Daniel Goleman
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5. “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
–William James
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6. Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through
paying attention on purpose, in the present moment,
and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience
moment by moment –Jon Kabat-Zinn
Flow is happiness in action –Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Eco-system awareness and action emphasizes the
well-being of the whole –Otto Scharmer
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