The open-focus brain

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1. dangAug 2024
   If you guys want to go down an unusually interesting rabbit hole, the book Open-Focus Brain by Les Fehmi and (especially) the associated audio exercises, are all about this.

   The exercises are something like guided meditations, but unique in my experience, and I never do exercises like that. It's a pity that his work isn't better known*. He died a couple years ago.

   * Edit: although HN does not disappoint!

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12712532 (Oct 2016)

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721704 (Dec 2014)

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718142 (Dec 2014)

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2. Sol2SolOct 2016
   Just finished reading The Open-Focus Brain by Les Fehmi and highly recommend it as it is a self help book that actually helps and is grounded in science. The book also comes with a CD of guided meditations.
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3. marcusgarveyDec 2014
   The Open Focus Brain. http://www.amazon.com/The-Open-Focus-Brain-Harnessing-Attent...

   "According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress—and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls 'Open Focus.'

   This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance."

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4. jpsterJun 2018
   this seems of a piece with open focus techniques.

   https://www.amazon.com/Open-Focus-Brain-Harnessing-Power-Att...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsotDvMJmk

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