How to pronounce “attentional” in English

Attentional differences are part of neurodivergence and autism spectrum disorders are part of neurodivergence.

the attentional balance, emotional balance, and insight that allows you to transform even the experiences that have

So attentional biases have been well described in particular in relation to anxiety.

to restore your attentional capacity, which gets so drained by this very hard-edged focus that we have to engage in when we're working,

They're attentional bottlenecks, and it's very difficult for us to even remember phone numbers.

So the cultivation of attentional balance is really critical so that we have high resolution of perception, that we're able to also sustain

the absence of attentional balance, the absence of emotional balance, the lack of capacity to tune into one's own subjectivity,

So you talked of attentional imbalance.

The fact that our attentional ground has been completely fragmented by our technology, allowing for

And the attentional blink is seen when a series of rapid stimuli are presented

There's an attentional bottleneck.

fit comfortably within our attentional space this is why we we drop balls when we're trying to juggle too many

They have amazing attentional skills.

And daydreaming is another attentional state that has value.

So this is an attentional state which is very inefficient, particularly when people ruminate.

Another example of attentional bias is that if we walk down a street in the middle of a night, we're very sensitive to the sound of twigs cracking, shapes in bushes and that

And we have a limited amount of attentional capacity, or think of it as attentional resources.

with limited energy and limited attentional bandwidth and all the rest of it, the consequence of this I'm

So being grounded and cultivating attentional balance is essential.

to ease into a deeper attentional state.

There is a phenomenon known as the attentional blink.

And scientists have regarded the attentional blink as a kind of refractory period of the mind.

And if we can reduce the attentional blink, we will be noticing more stuff.

And it turns out that the attentional blink is significantly reduced among people who are doing longer-term meditation practice,

So these are two different attentional states.

People who are frazzled have an attentional hijack going on, because one thing the amygdala does is redirect attention to whatever's upsetting us.

your attention it Gates the attentional pathways so it Gates what is sort of

Where am I restoring and replenishing my store of attentional abilities?

general reasoning, your attentional system, your memories, and so on.

And I recognized that compassion is not possible without attentional balance.

It's in a seesaw relationship with the attentional networks when you're working or something like that, but when you're asked to just lie back in an MRI machine,

And what you're doing here is amping up attentional circuitry.

So this integrates attentional processing and memory, and is involved also in meta-awareness and state

Kind of do a little bit of an attentional pivot.

And the breaks allow you to enter a different attentional mode.

there's been an explosion of neuroscience findings about the attentional circuitry, which has vast implications for us.

So for example, attentional bias is a tendency to pay attention to something which we think is important at the expense of something which may in fact be important.

There's research that shows certain forms of multitasking using different kinds of attentional channels and stuff, that can work.

And the way to interpret this data is that people first adopt particular attentional states,

That's involved in decision-making, attentional states, executive function, which is a measure of impulse control and cognitive control.

And that is one of many items of evidence that this is an attentional phenomenon.

And the reason is, this is an attentional problem.

But the practices themselves are actually quite simple and really kind of boil down to attentional training and self

In fact, it gets you in an attentional state which is the state where-- it's called the state of maximal cognitive efficiency,

you uh you know once you once you your brain gets captured once attentional

Would you say-- is there some sort of sweet spot between this notion of mindful, attentional switching, like intentionally doing this to sort of preserve

But compassion as I described it, as composing or comprised of attentional balance, emotional balance, inside an embodiment,

of their executive functions could be great they could like totally do so well on the attentional measures so then it's something else and then we wonder how do

So meditation, if you think of it in terms of attentional training, just builds your attentional muscle.