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Meditation and Learning to Pay Attention

Posted on July 30, 2007

I have talked before about the increasing difficulties that we all have with paying attention.Over the years we have tried all sorts of things to help people to become better at focusing and controlling their attention, from games, to biofeedback devices to meditation. It is the last of those that seems to be the most effective. We know from personal experience that paying close attention to one thing can keep us from noticing something else. If we are shown two visual signals half a second apart, we usually miss the second because we are still focused on the first one. We are consciously unaw...

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