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I think you're right. There seems to be two sorts of attention in the mind, narrowly focused attention and broad diffuse attention. I see the goal of meditatio

I think you're right. There seems to be two sorts of attention in the mind, narrowly focused attention and broad diffuse attention. I see the goal of meditation not so much as alternating between the two modes but rather like balancing them and running them both in parallel. This entire video is really excellent, but see particularly this bit here, where Iain McGilchrist describes the concept. https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI?t=88 https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI?t=88

anon2020dot00 5y ago
Interesting, a lot to ponder on with regards to "The Divided Brain". The diffused mode could be the broad diffuse attention while focus mode is the the narrowly focused attention. It seems like there is specialized parts in the brain for attention with one hemisphere for narrow and the other for broad. But I think that this is just one theory and it could also be the case that these two modes are more evenly distributed throughout the brain.
- gerbilly 5y ago
  I wasn't really focused so much on where in the brain the two types of attention were located. It may be as he describes it in the video, or it may not. For meditation, however, I feel strongly that the goal is to achieve a balanced state of mind, and the balance is as I understand it, is between these two types of attention.