👀 TREE 802: Shifting attention

Change starts with noticing.
It starts in our nervous system.
Shifting attention and noticing difference.
Gets the nervous system interested,
opens the door to learning something new, through discovery.

To stay noticing, bring playfulness to the table.
To stay playful,
don’t try hard.
Don’t try to get it right.
Don’t try to do well.
Don’t force.

Do what’s easy and comes simply.
Start with what is available,
the path of least resistance,
just what takes your interest.

Bring heaps of CURIOSITY.
As you explore notice any resistance ‘lightly’
and see what you discover as you go,
what reveals itself to you.
Moving attention in this way
cultivates a fresh quality to listening, sensing and feeling
that moves us toward discovering what is possible. (Pushing hard can lead to what’s not possible.)
One doorway of possibility leads to the next.
This is how true learning happens.

Change starts with noticing,
shifting attention and noticing difference.

I love this quote:

‘What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.’
—Moshe Feldenkrais

Let me know how you go.
Keep playing and exploring.
There’s a playful exploration to try below.

See you tomorrow
Ruth xx

Shifting attention to reboot & refresh

An easy to do exploration playing with attention.

Take a three-minute time out. (Absolutely take more time if you want to.)
Sit/stand/lie down/walk around, whatever is easiest.

Notice:

• 3 sounds

• 3 smells

• 3 sensations

Remember keep it playful.

Up for more?

Zoom in/out (foreground & background of attention)

• Zoom into the sounds, get more curious about each of them, as sensation and smell move to background of your attention.

• Zoom into your sensations as sound and smell move back.

• Let smell be in the foreground as you hold sensation and sound in the background.

And more?

Mix it up (layering attention)

• Tune into the sounds and keep a sense of the sensations.

• Notice the smells as you hear the sounds.

This White Denim video will ask you to layer attention 😊