{"id":6672,"date":"2006-01-01T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2024-08-10T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:30:06","slug":"the-science-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/?p=6672","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of Attention, pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“…we can’t completely eliminate fear<\/span><\/span> for we can never know everything. So the name of the game is to transmute fear from a paralyzing force into a motivating force rather than wasting time trying to suppress it or transcend it<\/span>. A small percentage of your fears are real and should be respected. They are valuable. They keep you safe and motivate you into action. But the vast majority of your fears are just negative dialogue that dribbles from the mind<\/span>.” (Wilde, S. The Secrets of Life<\/em>. Hay House, 1995)<\/p>\n

“…allow the thoughts to pass gently through your mind. Give them no importance, and they will pass on. It is the nature of the mind to think, so don’t try to get rid of thoughts.<\/span>” (Hay, L. L. You Can Heal Your Life<\/em>. Hay House, 2004)<\/p>\n

“It is impossible to succeed by effort<\/span>, or by attempting to “concentrate”<\/span><\/span>…As popularly understood, concentration means to do or think one thing only—but this is impossible, and an attempt to do the impossible is a strain which defeats its own end. The human mind<\/span> is not capable of thinking of one thing only. It can think of one thing best, and is at rest only<\/span> when it does so, but it cannot think of one thing only<\/span>.…By thus taking the bull by the horns and consciously making the mind wander<\/span><\/span> more than it did unconsciously, she became able,…to palm for short periods<\/span>.” (Bates, H. W. The Bates Method for Better Eyesight without Glasses<\/em>. Henry Holt and Company, 1971)<\/p>\n

“What’s so beautiful about Taoism is that it teaches you to detach<\/span>—not only from the world’s emotions and the emotions of your family and the people around you, but it teaches you to observe and detach from your own emotions. It’s almost like standing above yourself and watching what is going on rather than owning the whole opera. In learning to detach from your urges and disquietude<\/span>, you become more clear, and less a victim of your own stuff.” (Wilde, S. Infinite Self: 33 Steps To Reclaiming Your Inner Power<\/em>. Hay House, 1996)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“…we can’t completely eliminate fear for we can never know everything. So the name of the game is to transmute fear from a paralyzing force into a motivating force rather than wasting time trying to suppress it or transcend it. A small percentage of your fears are real and should be respected. They are valuable. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}