Preface   ix
Acknowledgments   xiii

Introduction   1

1. An Addiction to Narrow Focus   11

    Exercise: Expanding Your Awareness of Visual Space   25

2. Sweet Surrender: Discovering the Benefits of Synchronous Alpha Brain Waves   29

3. The Full Complement of Attention   41

4. What Lies Beneath: Anxiety   55

    Exercise: Head and Hands in Open-Focus   63

5. Dissolving Physical Pain   71

6. Dissolving Emotional Pain   79

    Exercise: Dissolving Pain   92

7. Love Is a Way of Paying Attention: Open-Focus Tools for Relationships   96

    Exercise: Heart-Centered Open Focus    105

8. Peak Performance    113

9. Living in Open Focus    127

    Exercise: How Am I Now Paying Attention?    139

10. Attention and Psychotherapy    142

    Exercise: Thinking in Open Focus    149

    Exercise: Seeing in Open Focus    156

Conclusion: Thoughts on the Evolution of Attention    167

Epilogue    175

Notes    177

Index    185

About the Authors    191