Do You Have More Attention Than a Goldfish?
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Join Kenton for an exploration of attention, focus, and the importance of developing "engagement". This world is amazing, if only we can experience it.
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It's almost a superpower to be present and engage with your environment. I do occasionally get some weird looks when I sit patiently and I'm not staring at my phone. I'm all for normalizing having fun while exercising or learning! Have fun and unapologetically be yourself 💚
Wonderful words of wisdom and encouragement you've shared, my friend! Thank you =)
Such an important message for everyone to be mindful of! Thank you for sharing!❤🙏
Of course dear friend!!!
Beautifully said! Being "present" or "in the moment" or "engaged" is so important and can be so difficult to do at times. It takes practice. Some cultures train their children in this skill. I am so glad that you are providing opportunities for the children to practice engagement out of doors. Nature is a great teacher of how to be present and engaged. Example: I struggle with sitting meditation indoors (a goldfish is probably better at it than me!) but when outside, I have no trouble listening to the birds and being present with them for long periods of time.
Agreed! Nature can just sweep us in to a state of awareness and engagement (at least some of us!) -- such a diversity of sounds, sights, smells, and textures that surround us.
One way to think about it is this. When we are engaged, we look a certain way, quite alive, more beautiful even. When we are mindless and disengaged, we sort of slump over and our faces go “bleauh” and develop a kind of atmosphere of vacuity about us. Whoever there is who is looking around-whether it be another person, a beetle, a red-eyed vireo-then how do we want to be seen?
By the way I’m reading the book Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram-are you familiar with Abram’s work? It’s so interesting and has plenty of messages and analyses that ring true with me and my experiences, on both the “wild” end and the civilized. In a way there is a very deep message about rewilding and the ways we have begun to think-of the connection of story, language, and land, of the separation of space and time, speech and gesture…
Yes! Loved Spell of the Sensuous! And I remember reading an old book about Zen that said the Zen masters could just look at someone and see their level of awakedness. What you say definitely seems true -- and I love that you say we look "beautiful", because that's often how I think of it -- that engagement truly is beautiful, and when you see it in someone's eyes . . . wow!!!!
Ahh man i wrote a long comment and was engaged and ended up somehow losing the message before i sent it😂. Anyways comment 2. Yes i agree i am seeing this so often and paying attention for allot of people is becoming harder. I am noticing people totally consumed by a mobile. I am trying myself not to be consumed either. While i am working i leave the mobile in the vehicle and when im home im leaving it while im getting things done like cooking, family time and so on. When im doing things outdoors like hiking or foraging i will take my mobile to do tasks to take photos, but this is usually for like identification edibles or for my content creation or learning another skill but for me its more a source of knowledge and i am starting to limit what im consuming to not be consumed by what you where saying junk. Always enjoy engaging in your wisdom. Thanks for sharing. OSsss
My friend, way to go being conscious about your tech. Those devices can devour our awareness so easily! Leaving it in the vehicle is great -- you're treating it like a tool, instead of an every-moment necessity. In my book, that's how our tech should be =)
It certainly feels worse.. seriously though, I binged about 11 hours of Mentor Pilot airplane crash analysis, I think I'm good. My memory might need work though.
Lol! Sounds like an intense 11 hours =)
Hi Kenton
I might have missed it, but the word I waited for you to use and didn't, is "Contrast". It's contrast that really shows us things in our increasingly standardized and 'normalized' world views. Contrast is that sense of difference in the way junk vs healthy foods make us feel. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed your vide! Just seemed to me a glaring lack of expression in leaving that one word out.
One more point: Electronic entertainment, especially TV/video games, put out certain subliminal signals and frequencies that basically 'shove' the mind into an Alpha state. Experiments have shown most people cannot remain in full beta awareness for more than a few minutes after tuning into TV/video. This is no accident. Alpha mind is 25 TIMES more suggestible than Beta. Which state do YOU think advertisers and those promoting overall social control want the general public to be in??
So if anything is going to save us, it's those things in our lives that give us a much needed dose of contrast.
Sincerely, John, Ana, and Little Forest
I love it! Yes, contrast can be difficult to come by when there is a "standard" that we're always imbibing -- and without contrast, the standard is all we know.
i know now a days we get label gen baby boomer, gen x, gen y millennal, gen z and gen alpha now a days but back in the day we were not label is that at all but now a days we are label is that i don't like that genertation war meaning i don't like that most compete compare be in the ego mindset say my generation is better than your generation because i love all generations equally i want to let you know that i'm gen y millennal because i was born in 1991, i respect if some choose to be addicted to food and technologies and some choose to not be addicted to food and technologies because i'm always going to respect everyone's free will i think there is nothing wrong if some want to be addictied or not addicted as long it makes them happy but if it doesn't make some of them happy than yeah that's what i agree they can found something else to do but for me i know how my i love being addicted to certain food and technologies i love don't get me wrong i love nature i just don't like being force to go out in nature all the time everyday i love both technology and nature equally, i also want to share with you that i hate corporate greed so much making everything expensive now a days lately i always been against corporate greed but i respect if some love corporate greed things are expensive some defend it don't mind it ok with it and some that are are against corporate greed that hate corporate greed i never like it when most things are expensive i always love prefer than things are cheap affordable and there is also apart of me even since i was a kid, teen and even now as in adult i always wish everything was for free that we don't have to pay for anything with money because i always hate paying it not being free i think the world would be a better place if everything was for free i feel like most that are running this martix system world the bad guys soulless beings really don't care about us, jeaouls of most of us that are good innocent don't want to see us happy that just shows they hate us i also feel bad for some homeless people that are good innocent i think not all homeless people are bad evil yes there are some homesless people that are bad but there are also some homeless people that are good innocent but sometimes goes with poor and rich people i also agree most that say that money is energy and money is not real i know some believe money is the root of all evil and some believe money is not the root of all evil well i respect everyone's difference perspective on things well for me i think money is the root of all evil because i think it has never been natural organic to me that we have to be force to pay for things with money if they were good they would give it to us for free i think it's natural if everything was free and we had real true freedom not force to do certain things we don't wanna do because i know i share that i don't like school, work a job, chruch and pay for things with moeny i think it's like slave prison martix system i think it's not natural to be force to do certain things some of us don't wanna do that don't mean some of us happy but if it means some happy that's fine but if it doesn't mean some of us happy than that's when it's not ok with me in my book i think the ones that are running this world i wish they would love some of us that want to be free have real true freedom let us be free let us have real true freedom
Such wonderful ways of seeing the world, my friend!
@@ReWildUniversity thanks for always being understanding respectful this is why i love you and your family so much because i love that you guys are nicer you need more people like that but too bad only some of the miniroty are nicer friendly but the majority are not like that at all can end up being mean at times when i don't like it when they are mean be harsh with me and also disrespectful too that's all i want to say i hope you have a good day take care
I like Harry Potter and would love to eat Harry Potter Food if they made it for me if I was invited @5:53 that's lovely I was just watching Harry Potter the other day.