Find Your Focus & Own Your Attention with Dr. Amishi Jha (177)

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Many of us struggle with hyper-vigilant minds that overwhelm our nervous systems. Some of us overcompensate by habitually tuning out, causing us to miss important information from our bodies and our relationships. Dr. Amishi Jha summarizes the neural bases of attention and the effects of mindfulness-based training programs on cognition, emotion, resilience, and performance.

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0:00.0	It doesn't matter if we don't have to be firefighters or medical professionals, our attention
0:04.0	does matter for our lives. It matters for all the things on which attention is needed.
0:10.3	So we need our attention to think, we need our attention to regulate our emotions,
0:15.6	we need our attention to connect socially. And now when those systems, all three of them or any one
0:21.4	of them are disrupted or dysregulated, things can really fall out of whack. And so what you were
0:28.0	saying regarding personal histories that may lead people to sort of a tendency toward hypervigilance,
0:32.8	essentially that floodlight is broad and receptive, but everything kind of feels like a caution
0:37.2	sign in your world. You're on high alert. And we know that that leads to things like anxiety
0:42.8	disorders and is very common within PTSD. But most of the time people don't think of that as
0:49.0	attentional challenges. And I'm saying it actually is. And it may be the case that
0:55.1	changing how we pay attention may soften the costs of a hypervigilant mind that we experience.
1:05.1	Welcome to Therapist Uncensored, building on decades of professional experience this podcast
1:10.0	tackles neurobiology, modern attachment, and more in an honest way that's helpful in healing
1:15.1	humans. Your session begins now with Dr. Ann Kelly and Sue Marriott.
1:25.9	Hey everyone, this is Ann Kelly. Our guest today, Dr. Amishijah, is going to change the way
1:31.4	you think. I mean, actually literally. Dr. Jha is a neuroscientist and the author of the best
1:36.7	seller, Pete Mine, find your focus on your attention, invest 12 minutes a day. So it's that last part
1:42.8	that really gets my attention. I mean, what's not to love about that much really important change
1:47.9	in a very doable way for most of us? So one of the things that stood out in my conversation with Dr.
1:53.7	Jha is that we miss out of about 50% of our waking lives because we aren't paying attention. So I
2:00.6	think of the pages that I've read only to get to the bottom and wonder what I just read and have
2:05.2	to start again. Or conversations that I've been in that I realize that I've tuned out for a few
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