What is the status is "absent-mindedness"? Almost everyone there are moments when everything literally slipping out of control, falling apart and lost sight. Can really says is, the case in hunger?
Might be true. Dissatisfaction with basic needs such as food, water, sleep (well who has not heard about Maslow's pyramid?) - a recipe for distraction. How can you focus on something high, if all thoughts of bun or soft pillow? And perhaps this is the simplest form of negligence – it is clear how to cope, let me remind you: "don't stop, eat a Snickers!".
But what to do, when and slept and ate, distracted as he was, and left? Here will go the more complex and thorny path to look first in clever books, and then himself.
so all in order. Clever books say that distraction is a kind of "wandering" of consciousness, which can not or (attention!) not want for something to cling to. To the question, "why not?", partly we have already answered – the body and brain are busy doing other, more significant issues (e.g., survival), it also includes some organic brain damage and mental illness. But about the "wants" we will talk separately.
All the same books talk about two important components of attention – switching and concentration, which can be either high or low. From their combinations will depend on the nature of our carelessness.
If the weak and the switching and concentration, then more often to blame for fatigue and a good rest is quite able to solve the problem (remember Maslow).
But the weak switching and high concentration is a variant of the distraction of the scientist or the artist (occupied by a single object, they are simply not able to notice anything else). Here it is up to ourselves whether we should do to deal with such carelessness.
Well, the option is, in my opinion, more serious – high switching and low concentration (in common – confusion). It's time to look into myself and see where it has "feet grow". Yes, it still may be fatigue, but more often the internal that no justification is given for some task, or, as they say, "Freudian" unconscious unwillingness to do (and even notice) that, on what the attention should be concentrated.
Here there is room for introspection. Where are our thoughts in this moment? Anywhere, but not here? Where is "anywhere"? Why are they there? "Here" is so bleak that there are no forces to be? And maybe "there" is so wonderful that we are drawn to him, not noticing anything around? Why do we need this inattention, what is its positive intention?
Understanding this "why" is already half way (and sometimes all) of the attention.
of Course, in each particular case will have their reasons and their ways of dealing with inattention. But if on average, the most simple to try and stay for a long period of shifting attention: a change of scenery or of familiar behaviour. It's good, and in the case where the "eye zamylilsya" life turned into a Groundhog day. Go to work on a different street or start there is a left hand (Lefty – right). Attention will begin to cling to new, unusual, and old can be viewed in a different light and something for yourself to understand.
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