Berry's entirely unironic manual reflects a view of poetry, or to be precise the making of poetry, as a kind of meditation, consisting of preparation followed by waiting; of listening to the silence until the poem emerges in the attentive mind.
Too much engagement in worldly affairs hinders the mind to be attentive inside the prayers....surely by Allah's remembrance are the hearts set at rest.
Kabat-Zinn said the use of mindfulness in the political process could improve policymaking and that by training the mind to be more attentive, politicians may listen better to the needs of the country and the world.
To this end, Michael Mrazek, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, wanted to see whether mindfulness training could improve test scores, not by focusing on the test, but by focusing on the mind – helping it stay attentive and wander less.
And, in addition to attunement to this external moiling of sensation, one is also and simultaneously dispassionately attentive to the contents of one's own mind.
By doing this regularly, practitioners say, you begin to cultivate an attentive, nonjudgmental mind-set — mindfulness — that can be applied to activities beyond meditation; hence the proliferation of the word in everything from parenting groups to Weight Watchers meetings.
A single thing, such as vision, cannot be the effect of many conditions, such as the eye, visible color, an attentive mind and so forth, he says, because the effect has the feature of being one, while the causes are many, but there is nothing to account for what causes the reduction of many things to one.
It has been suggested that training that produces a relaxed and attentive mind will enhance the performance of individuals 52 because it enables them to be less easily distracted, remain focused on task, and cope with stressful work demands in a relaxed and flexible manner.
As it turns out, the minds of an attentive packed house will get few opportunities to wander in the course of the slick and energetic 90-minute performance that follows.
The personable manager, 24-year-old Ulises Santiago, just days away from completing his year of involuntary tourism service, was attentive, though his mind wandered to other things; in a week, he'd be leaving the cloud forest and moving to California, with dreams of making money.
