It doesn't matter if we don't have to be firefighters or medical professionals,

our attention does matter for our lives. It matters for all the things on which attention is needed.

So we need our attention to think, we need our attention to regulate our emotions,

we need our attention to connect socially. And now when those systems, all three of them,

or any one of them are disrupted or dysregulated, things can really fall out of whack.

And so what you were saying regarding personal history is that may lead people to

sort of a tendency toward hypervigilance. Essentially that floodlight is broad and receptive,

but everything kind of feels like a caution sign in your world. You're on high alert.

And we know that that leads to things like anxiety disorders and is very common within PTSD.

But most of the time people don't think of that as attentional challenges. And I'm saying it actually

is. And it may be the case that changing how we pay attention may soften the costs of

a hypervigilant mind that we experience. Welcome to Therapist Uncensored. Building on

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Hey everyone, this is Ann Kelly. Our guest today, Dr. Amishijah, is going to change the way you

think. I mean, actually literally. Dr. Jha is a neuroscientist and the author of the best

seller, Pete Mine, find your focus on your attention, invest 12 minutes a day. So it's that last part

that really gets my attention. I mean, what's not to love about that much really important change

in a very doable way for most of us. So one of the things that stood out in my conversation with

Dr. Jha is that we miss out of about 50% of our waking lives because we aren't paying attention.

So I think of the pages that I've read only to get to the bottom and wonder what I just read and

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