How to Pay Whole Body Attention in the Midst of Mayhem

In order to be, play and love, we have to become very intentional about where we're placing our attention. Now, we might think attention is something we do from our critical and conscious mind, but true attention comes from our body wisdom. 

When we give attention to the right things, we get into the flow and that opens up so much aliveness. 

Even in the most chaotic situations, like a crowded airport during a busy holiday season, we can still create doorways of attention which increase our scope of awareness and our choicefulness. The more we learn to shift our awareness, the faster it becomes something we do readily and easily at any moment. 

How do we build the skill of attention and muscle it up? How do we learn to let feelings flow through us instead of avoiding them?

In this episode, we talk about the power of attention and how to shift it from negative to true curiosity. 

 

Things You'll Learn In This Episode

-How to move through feelings faster 

Many people think leaning into a feeling will swallow us whole, but refusing to feel is what actually gets us taken in the whirlpool. How do we learn to be with a feeling? 

-Attention creates choicefulness 

In the midst of mayhem, getting in the flow of what's happening actually brings solutions faster. How do we learn to play with the uncomfortable feelings that come up? 

-Shift from critical brain to wonder brain 

Even if it doesn't feel good, we can shift to curiosity when we're in a funk. How do we shift our attention in the moment, and how does this widen our scope of attentiveness? 

-How to readily shift your attention 

Paying attention often feels like such a conscious mental effort. How do we get to a point where it's unconscious and we do it without even thinking?