Attention: Beyond Mindfulness

Publication Date : 1/8/17
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Gay Watson explores attention through many disciplines and ways of life, from neuroscience to surfing. This is a valuable and timely account of something central to our lives yet all too often neglected." 9781401938659," Attention is the most threatened r

Attention is central to everything we do and think; yet it is usually invisible, transparent, lost behind our fixation with content. We pay attention to this and that moment or we let our attention wander, but we rarely give attention to the process of attending and distraction. It is typically viewed instrumentally, in terms of what it can achieve, and so its process and practice are overlooked, yet it is central to the process of neuroplasticity the process by which the brain creates new neural pathways in order to adapt and underlies both the mindfulness revolution and the concern about the influence of new social and digital media.

In Attention: Beyond Mindfulness, Gay Watson explores attention in action through many disciplines and ways of life, from neuroscience to surfing. The book contains interviews with, among others, John Luther Adams, Stephen Batchelor, Susan Blackmore, Guy Claxton, Edmund de Waal, Rick Hanson, Jane Hirshfield, Iain McGilchrist, Wayne McGregor, Garry Fabian Miller, Alice and Peter Oswald, Ruth Ozeki, and James Turrell. A valuable and timely account of something central to our lives yet all too often neglected, this book will appeal to all those who find their attention wandering owing to the distractions and clamour of modern life, and want to know why.

(9781780237459)

SKU 9781780237459
Barcode # 9781780237459
Brand Reaktion Books
Artist / Author Gay Watson
Shipping Weight 0.2000kg
Shipping Width 0.020m
Shipping Height 0.216m
Shipping Length 0.138m
Unit Of Measure each
Publication Date 1/8/17
Number of pages 224
format Hardback

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