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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now \u2018let us remember this again, \u2018What we give our Attention to matters,\u2019 as Our life\u2019s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled \u2013 Maintaining a Stable World <\/em>from a collection of articles titled \u2018Our Mind In the Modern World<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 by Robert Ornstein, PhD<\/a>; David Sobel, MD, MPH<\/a>; and Sally Mallam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These articles draw our attention to the fact as to how we have created an unprecedented world for ourselves, whereas all other animals live inside their original habitat where they have adapted \u2018by design\u2019 to it. And the way forward for us in our unprecedented creation would be an evolution of our consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maintaining a Stable World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The achievement of the human mind is to have stability in a world where there is constant change. There\u2019s a lot of work behind the scenes to make this happen, and it comes at great cost: We have to simplify, overgeneralize, ignore, predict, and make assumptions. It\u2019s a constant that much of our experience is edited out scene by scene, moment by moment, feature by feature. Remember: You haven\u2019t seen your nose lately, nor are you aware of what happens, thousands of times per day, when you blink and the world doesn\u2019t disappear into a black nothingness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our experience of the world assembles in a fleeting instant, with no time for thinking but just enough for producing a best guess of the world. To act quickly we assume <\/em>a lot about the world we perceive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is very difficult for us to judge anything absolutely, as we are wired to measure things only by comparison. Things are not heavy but are heavier than we expect or were previously experiencing \u2014 brighter, richer, more intelligent. We adapt to temperatures, to a level of income or net worth, to comfort, to taste; and we judge based on our assumed level of adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we actually experience is the category which is evoked by a particular stimulus, not the occurrence in the external world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from \u2018Our Mind In the Modern World\u2019 by Robert Ornstein, David Sobel & Sally Mallam<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Do We Maintain a Stable World?<\/a><\/blockquote>