SELECTIVE ATTENTION

Your selective attention is your focused or tunnelled concentration on a single object, or on selective objects. It is as much an act of muting or ignoring surrounding stimuli as it is an act of tıning up one particular stimulus or set of stimuli. According to the findings revealed by the brain imaging technique called a MEG scan, which is the magnetic equivalent of the EEG scan, your brain synchronises your brain waves in order to coordinate how you focus and ignore stimuli.

These MEG scans reveal that certain of your brain waves called alpha and beta rhythms, hum at the same low frequency in different brain regions. These regions are at the right inferior frontal cortex, which govern attention suppression Your alpha and beta rhythms are characterised as inhibitory, meaning they play a role in transmitting ‘’ignore’’ or ‘’stop’’ messages between parts of your brain. These low-frequency rhythms come about when you want to block something from happening such as blocking a perception, or stopping a movement, or even your perceptions of pain.

Nerve cells on the surface of your brain are coordinated with each other at a particular frequency depending on the state of your barin. Alpha brain waves which are tuned at 8-12 cycles per second enable parts o your brain concerned with higher control to influence other parts of your brain. Alpha waves, from the front of your brain, your forebrain, are associated with placebo analgesia and influence how other parts of your brain process pain. You can ‘tune’ your brain to express more alpha waves and can reduce your pain with certain conditions. This can be done by wearing googles that flash light in the alpha range, by sound stimulation in both ears phased to provide the same stimulus frequency, by meditation and by using mindset tools. I have been seeing thousands of people dive into alpha waves, connect with the frorebrain, the executive center, connect with a clear vision for their lives while using the meditation and mindset tools I teach…

Electrotheraphy and the methods we teach in our curriculum can shift or enhance your brain rhythms to help you manage your attention in purposeful ways. Training your brain rhythms through meditation or manipulating them with electrotherapy or working with effective mindset tools (like the mind transformation methods we teach in our curriculum) can help you process sensory living congruent according tı your highest values, and less driven by your mood and reactivity.

There exist an illusion concerning your filtered attention. You do not actually notice everything that takes place in front of you. You often see only or partly what your highest values and SELECTIVE ATTENTION lead you to focus on. Whatever you are attentive to and do not notice, goes consciously unheeded. And you probably have no idea of what you are overlooking, which will often become part of your unconscous. It is wise to therefore confront all possible and seemingly impossible scenarios when paying attention

Your are consciously aware of only a tiny fraction of what your brain perceives. Your consciousness apparently ‘’ignores’’ the rest, although much, if not all of it, is there unconsciously.

Your brain processes a massive amount of sensory input unconsciously, distilling it down before you become consciously ware of it. There is time time delay between your brain detects a stimulus and when consciously register part of it and then a few second before you make many of your decisions. (about 200-800 milliseconds).

Your so-called free will may be limited to only your conscious decisions, not your unconscious reactions. Your brain back dates your conscious response thus creating impression there was hardly and dealt at all. Your consciousness is therefore only your model of reality, or your mental theater. Your unconscious is often what is excluded.

Many of your life decisions and emotional reactions are actually decided bu your unconscious mind. Your conscious mind is barely paying attention. Such automatic judgements and behaviours are shaped by embedded attitudes derived from your voids and values. You move back and forth between your conscious and unconscious models of thought. Your adaptive unconscious and subconscious portions of your mind assist you with your decisions.

Many of your neuropyschological disorders result from your persistent irrational or emotional judgements derived from your conscious and unconscious mental splits, or subconscious emotionally charged impulses and instincts…

‘’To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.’’
William Blake

Your version of truth is not entirely clear-cut. It often turns out to be just opinion. And mounting evidence from neurosciences indicates that your perceptions are not direct representations of the external world. Rather your brain is unique. It makes guess about your reality based on the sensory signals it receives. You can wrap the truth and normalise your lies.

REALITY PREDICTION

Your brain is a prediction machine. It uses prior experience and knowledge to make sense of the deluge of information coming from your surroundings. Nearly everything you do - perception, decision, action and learning- lies on making and updating your expectations. Your brain tries to forecast the future when you interact with others: you constantly attempt to deduce other people’s intentions and anticipate what they might say or do next. When your brain generates as a prediction error, it uses this information to update its expectations and select actions that will help resolve the discrepancy between your beliefs and your reality.

‘’The downward signals from the higher levels of your brain continually interact with the ‘’upward’’ signals from your sense, generating a prediction error: the difference between what you expect and what you experience. A signal conveying this discrepancy returns to the higher levels, helping to refine your internal models and generating fresh guesses, in an unending refinement of what’s really out there.’’
Rajesh P. N. Rao
Computational Neuroscientist
University of Washington