{"id":704,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:52:54","slug":"immersed-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Immersed Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">We call the process of observing the mental, emotional, and physiological effects inside oneself or inside someone else:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>&#8216;Attention Immersion&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is different from more spatial or <a href=\"?p=428\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">soft focus<\/span><\/a> Attention, whereby our <a href=\"?p=358\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">attention beam<\/span><\/a> energizes the contours of an animate or inanimate object plus the immediate space around it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">We experience this ancient human skill as a new skill, a new <a href=\"?p=491\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">sense<\/span><\/a>, called &#8216;<a href=\"?p=220\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Felt Sense<\/span><\/a>&#8216; by Peter Levine, researcher and author of the book &#8220;Awaking the Tiger&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Using the Socratic\/Platonic practice of continuously <a href=\"?p=465\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">asking questions<\/span><\/a> often leads to new insights and global views of the functioning of whatever you attend to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=659\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Ask%20Q_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"256\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We call the process of observing the mental, emotional, and physiological effects inside oneself or inside someone else: &#8216;Attention Immersion&#8217; This is different from more spatial or soft focus Attention, whereby our attention beam energizes the contours of an animate or inanimate object plus the immediate space around it. We experience this ancient human skill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}