Here’s a refreshing, electric mode of attention that you can choose at any moment: notice every beginning—like, every new drum hit, or every new color that hits your eye when you scan a scene. Try to keep your attention hovering on that horizon where stimuli emerge from nonexistence. This is wonderful for music with a lot of abrupt changes. Better

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Many of us experience life as if we’re taking it in through a pair of headphones. We strip away the full register. We hear information, but don’t detect the subtler vibrations of feeling in the body. When you practice listening with the whole self, you expand the scope of your consciousness to include vast amounts of information otherwise missed, a

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