The Weekly Minute - Stop, Look, Let go, Repeat.

Instructions for Stop, Look, Let go, Repeat.

• Choose something to focus on, an easy thing might be your breath, or the feeling of your feet on the floor, or a mantra of your choice. 
• Focus your attention on your chosen object. 
• Every time you notice your mind has wandered, stop wandering, look at what took your attention (just look, don't engage), let it go, and repeat this every time you find your mind strays.
• Continue for one minute.

In the past minute you practiced training your attention to be where you want it to be. Focused attention literally gives you time. Instead of daydreaming (or worrying) your time away, you will be present for more moments, and therefore, more life. Focused attention also lets you get done the things you need to get done more efficiently, so you have more time to play, how fun is that?

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“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will… An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James

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