Transcript CVCLiveMeeting.Apr1.pptx

Step 1: Train Your
Attention
Ronelle Langley, Ph.D.
4-Step Plan for Resilient Living
1.Train Your Attention
2.Cultivate Emotional
Balance
3.Start a Body-Mind
Practice
4.Pick Healthy Habits
Two steps in Transformation:
Retraining Our Brain & Re-engaging Our Heart
Step 1:
Re-awakens
the child within
you who finds
joy in the
mundane
Step 2:
Creating interpretations
based on principlebased skills of:
Gratitude, Compassion,
Acceptance, Meaning,
Forgiveness.
Train Your Attention
Attention training wakes up the
child in you who found the world
novel and fascinating, and a
place to have fun.
- Amit Sood
Joyful Attention
• #1: Wake up with gratitude
• Gratitude meditation
Joyful Attention
#2: Taste of nature once a day
Joyful Attention
#3: Heartfully meet
loved ones
Joyful Attention
…or friends
Kind Attention
• Neutral eyes
• Judgmental eyes
• Kind eyes
Kind Attention
Joyful & Kind Attention
• Train it
• Sustain it
• Find empty times
– As part of daily life (e.g., elevator)
– Waiting (e.g., grocery line)
• Improve overall wellbeing
• Involve others (accountable buddies)
• Joyful and kind attention can change brain
structure
What We Learn from Neurosciences
• Contemplative practices are important ways for training attention
• Similar structural changes in brain for Eastern and Western meditation
practitioners
Benefits
• More relaxed state of mind
• Reduces anxiety
• Increases resilience
• Lowers stress
• Improves attention and
memory
Resources
Research, Articles and Videos
• The Neuroscience of Happiness
• Brain scan of French monk
• Brain scans show meditation changes
minds, increases attention
• Mayo Clinic - Mind and Body Connection
• Attention and Interpretation Therapy
• The Four Keys to Well-Being