Keeping our attention on what matters most to us can be
tough with all the distractions of modern life, one of them the screens
that now surround us, some of them constantly in our hands!
Whatever
the size screen, be it our phones, TV's in our living rooms, desktop
computers, in taxicabs and elevators, waiting rooms, stores, gas pumps,
all of them teach our brain to rapidly switch from one task to another
to another.
Senior professor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University and author of Teach Your Kids How to Learn, says
this habit of switching from one screen to another conflicts with
focused attentiveness. In one study, people in a room with a TV and a
computer switched their eyes back and forth every 14 seconds—120 times
in 27.5 minutes.
As
distraction becomes the norm, we start to crave it when it doesn't
exist, which is why so many people check their phone screens even as
they walk down the street. In one experiment, 94% of Chicago pedestrians
using cellphones didn't see cash hanging from a tree! Just the presence
of smartphones—even when they are not being actively used—can affect
our cognitive performance.
We need to keep focus on the following 3 step pattern.
Intention—Attention—No Tension
Intention is a conscious statement of what we want to show up in our lives and Attention
is our focus on that intention, taking action that keeps that focus and
then letting go of results or expectations that it's supposed to show
up a certain way. That's the No Tension piece.
Have a great day :-)
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