Dr. Amishi Jha on Peak Mind and Attention Training

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. Dr. Jha’s work has been featured at NATO, the World Economic Forum, and The Pentagon. She has received coverage in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Forbes, and more.

In this episode, Eric and Dr. Amishi Jha discuss her new book, Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 minutes a Day

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Dr. Amishi Jha and I Discuss Peak Mind and Attention Training and...

Her book, Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 minutes a Day
Defining "peak mind" and the distinction between thinking and doing
The doing mode and being mode
The being mode is being observant and receptive to what is happening
Wisdom is both reflection and action
The different modes of the brain and their functions
How we prioritize information based on our goals that then guide how we interact with our mind and environment
How our attention itself isn't the problem, but rather how we monitor our attention that is problematic
The effectiveness of 12 minutes of a mindfulness practice every day
S.T.O.P. practice: Stop, Take a breathe, Observe, Proceed
Understanding our framework and how we can reframe and deframe our experiences
The problem with positive psychology tactics when you're depleted
How negative feelings or conflict is an opportunity to observe and course correct
The various microstates of the mind and their contingency on our next thoughts and actions

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0:28.4	Experience in conflict is not a problem, but to realize that the conflict does not mean
0:33.0	to translate into the elaborated notion that I'm a complete failure and is never going
0:38.0	to work out.
0:39.0	That's the mind doing something else.
0:48.6	Welcome to the 1ufe.
0:50.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:55.3	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of
1:01.8	us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
1:05.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
1:09.8	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and
1:14.3	dampen our spirit.
1:16.2	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
1:19.6	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
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