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Train Your Attention: 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living

Learn how to retrain your brain and engage your heart with this 4-step plan for cultivating emotional balance, starting a body-mind practice, and adopting healthy habits for a more resilient life.

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Train Your Attention: 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living

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  1. Step 1: Train Your Attention Ronelle Langley, Ph.D.

  2. 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living • Train Your Attention • Cultivate Emotional Balance • Start a Body-Mind Practice • Pick Healthy Habits

  3. Two steps in Transformation:Retraining Our Brain & Re-engaging Our Heart Step 1: Re-awakens the child within you who finds joy in the mundane Step 2: Creating interpretations based on principle-based skills of: Gratitude, Compassion, Acceptance, Meaning, Forgiveness.

  4. Train Your Attention Attention training wakes up the child in you who found the world novel and fascinating, and a place to have fun. - Amit Sood

  5. Joyful Attention • #1: Wake up with gratitude • Gratitude meditation

  6. Joyful Attention #2: Taste of nature once a day

  7. Joyful Attention #3: Heartfully meet loved ones

  8. Joyful Attention …or friends

  9. Kind Attention • Neutral eyes • Judgmental eyes • Kind eyes

  10. Kind Attention

  11. Joyful & Kind Attention • Train it • Sustain it • Find empty times • As part of daily life (e.g., elevator) • Waiting (e.g., grocery line) • Improve overall wellbeing • Involve others (accountable buddies) • Joyful and kind attention can change brain structure

  12. What We Learn from Neurosciences • Contemplative practices are important ways for training attention • Similar structural changes in brain for Eastern and Western meditation practitioners • Benefits • More relaxed state of mind • Reduces anxiety • Increases resilience • Lowers stress • Improves attention and memory

  13. Resources Research, Articles and Videos • The Neuroscience of Happiness • Brain scan of French monk • Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases attention • Mayo Clinic - Mind and Body Connection • Attention and Interpretation Therapy • The Four Keys to Well-Being

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