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10% Happier with Dan Harris
Dr. Jha explains what "peak mind" is and how to achieve it. She details how to focus without struggle and to regain attention from distraction.
Find your focus, own your attention, invest 12 minutes a day.
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Episode: The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amish...
Dr. Jha explains what "peak mind" is and how to achieve it. She details how to focus without struggle and to regain attention from distraction.
Find your focus, own your attention, invest 12 minutes a day.
So it's the ability to have access to all of your mind's resources and you still in the book go to great lengths.
It's not that everything's going to be rosy, rainbows, unicorns, sunshine.
It's that when you cultivate the mind in this way and really it's I'm talking about a whole suite of contemplative practices having to do with mindfulness meditation. You get to befriend your mind and in particular your attention system in a way that gives you useful information about what you might do with your mind in that moment and the next.
I really have wrote it as sort of a gift to take everything we've learned in the lab with all these high stress, high demand populations and just make it available for everybody to benefit from what we've learned and you can check out our research and more about the book at my website amishi.com if you remember my first name AMISHI.com and if you want to check out a cool meditation practice tied to the book 10% happier app we'll have it on it.