Introduction -- An addiction to narrow focus -- Exercise : expanding your awareness of visual space -- Sweet surrender : giving all to experience -- The full complement of attention exercise -- What lies beneath : anxiety -- Exercise : head and hands -- Dissolving physical pain -- Dissolving emotional pain -- Exercise : dissolving pain -- Love is a way of paying attention : open-focus tools for relationships -- Exercise : heart-centered open focus -- Peak performance -- Living in open focus -- Exercise : how am I paying attention? -- Styles of attending -- Attention and psychotherapy -- Exercise : seeing in open focus -- Conclusion: Thoughts on attention and reality -- Appendix: Research data on open-focus training.
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