Your Attention Coach » unconsciousness http://yourattentioncoach.com Practical Tools for Management of Life's Tasks Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Is It Consciousness or Unconsciousness that is the Source of Attention? http://yourattentioncoach.com/2010/01/is-it-consciousness-or-unconsciousness-that-is-the-source-of-attention/ http://yourattentioncoach.com/2010/01/is-it-consciousness-or-unconsciousness-that-is-the-source-of-attention/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:43:24 +0000 Maureen http://yourattentioncoach.com/?p=550 Which Came First to Attention: Consciousness or Unconsciousness?

National Public Radio played an interview with Cal Tech scientist Cristoff Koch speaking on the source of consciousness. I looped around in my head for a while looking for a landing spot to store and process his concept. The best I could do was to believe he was saying the less you pay attention the more you pay attention. It’s like dreaming for answers; disconnect the left/logical brain from the right/creative brain and you’ll be there, wherever that is.

It oddly made sense to me since I use dreamwork with clients for brainstorming and problem solving. In other words the less you try to force a solution the more clear the solution becomes. Daydreaming really works and is a form of consciousness that is sorely underrated. So if you’re looking to solve that dratted math problem stop trying so hard to pay attention. Let your eyebrows relax. Move in to your unconscious to find the answer.

Do I have this right? What do you think?

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