Summary
Ellen Langer: Listening to yourself
Mindfulness: techniques for directing attention
The essence of mindfulness (attention), or. in focused attention is the active observation of new things that improve our life and unleash the enormous potential of mental abilities that lead to changes in our life. Ellen Langer's book on attention, i.e. focused attention, is considered by many to be a key part in the field of social psychology, and this professor from Harvard University is the author of the careful approach - which is increasingly present in modern work with people.
The importance of techniques of attentiveness and directing attention is great in learning, creativity, work, health, we can apply them at work and in the family. The author presents in detail 50 experiments and their results that support the theory of mindfulness, answers the questions why it is fatal if you have a narrowed self-image, can forgetting be slowed down or stopped, how to teach children that limitations limit but do not define a person, and whether focused attention slows down aging and how to happily and actively participate in what we do:
* What is focused attention (mindfulness) or attention?
* How focused attention achieves changes in your life?
* Why does the absence of focused attention slow down our attempts and what risks does it create?
* Why does the lack of focused attention cause boredom?
* Get to know the Langer scale of focused attention.
Today, mindfulness techniques are indispensable in psychotherapy, counseling and teaching, which is the result of forty years of focused psychological research.
Dr. Sci. Nataša Cvejić-Starčević,
psychologist and psychotherapist, TA center
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