January Jumpstart | On Exquisite Attention

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  Brief doses of awe, getting outdoors, dancing, listening to music, having a great conversation.

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  It boosts well being.

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  We know it increases your feeling good about life.

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  Brief moments of awe help you handle daily stresses better.

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  Brief moments of awe, even when you're by yourself in nature or music, make you feel connected and decrease loneliness.

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  Brief moments of awe make you more creative, and they make you feel like the people around you, even ideological adversaries.

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  You kind of share stuff, right?

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  You're part of a community.

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  So when you put that together, it just tells us, like, if we're really thinking about the utility of awe, it's good news for human beings.

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  So have you ever felt like you're just kind of moving through life in a trance?

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  Like your body is there, but your mind is just off somewhere else, disconnected to the moment, to the person or people around you, to your environment.

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  And even when you are there, you feel pulled in a million different directions, your attention being almost violently torn between tasks, projects, and demands, struggling to focus.

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  We get caught in trances of distraction and busyness, pulled away from the beauty and magic that surrounds us every day, often all day.

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  And thats just whats happening on the outside, on the inside, a neur, maniacal slipstream of chatter, self talk, overthinking anxiety, overplanning fear and lament, keeps us spinning in the caverns of our mind, closed off from the world and people around us, from actually being present in what's happening right before us, let alone seeing the blessing of it and deriving genuine joy from it.

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  I have come to believe in a simple idea.

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  Attention is life.

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  Where your attention goes, so goes your mind, your heart, your behavior, and your life that can lead to incredible moments of deep and profound presence, awareness, connection, elation, awe and joy, when you understand how to tap into and direct your attention in an intentional way.

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  But, and sadly, this has become the chronic state for most people.

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  It can also lead you to feel fractured, disconnected, flatlined and disengaged, even when it seems there are amazing things happening all around you, when you don't have the capacity and the skills needed to direct your attention in ways that wake your life up, that plug you into the ever present possibilities, the juicy essence of it, rather than just closing it all down.

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  So how do you do this?

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