attention
The kind of attention we pay actually alters the world: we are, literally, partners in creation
from The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
attention
The kind of attention we pay actually alters the world: we are, literally, partners in creation
from The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
The more fear we bring to an event, the more we are telling the amygdala that the salience of the event is very high and very threatening; and the less fear we bring, the less we are going to activate the threat salience, leaving our attention free to be directed as we choose.
“Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.”
—Epictetus
Crucially for our purposes, the DMN is negatively correlated with the attention network (AN), meaning that the more it is activated, the less access we have to the power of our attention.
DMN - the default mode network