Attention : beyond mindfulness /

This book shows, the way we think about attention is usually through its instrumentality, by what can be achieved if we give something enough of it—say, a crisply written report, a newly built bookcase, or even a satisfied child who has yearned for engagement. Yet in losing ourselves to the objects...

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Main Author: Watson, Gay (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Attending to attention
  • Creative attention
  • The attentive art of mediation and mindfulness practices
  • The neuroscience of attention
  • Emotional attention
  • Attentive education
  • Attending to creativity
  • Attentiveness to the word
  • Visual attention
  • Aural attention: listening and hearing
  • Embodied attention
  • Attentive and experiential in-conclusions.