Thoughtober Day Eighteen

What are you paying attention to?

Look at the picture above.

Have you ever considered what the background noise to your ability to pay attention is?

If we are constantly listening to noise then our visual information is suppressed to give more focus to what we need to listen to.

So we may not see what we need to as our brain is listening out instead.

So today I would like you to be more in control of what you are listening to and what you are seeing.

Be more aware of noises and what they are, and realise that we may miss the wood for the trees visually if we are constantly distracted by sound.

This is all just information but the more in control of our executive function we are and the mroe awarness we have of how it functions then better brain health we have.

“It had something to do with paying attention and the ability to choose what I paid attention to, and to be aware of that choice, the fact that it’s a choice… That there were depths to me that were not bullshit or childish but profound, and were not abstract but actually much realer than my clothes or self-image, and that blazed in an almost sacred way… and that these realest, most profound parts of me involved not drives or appetites but simple attention, awareness, if only I could stay awake…”