And I would say it’s at the point where it feels like a crisis moment. How common is the struggle?ĪJ: Oh, very, very common. SD: So I mentioned that I’ve been struggling with focus, and I wouldn’t be surprised if every interview you’ve done around this book has started with a similar admission from those. Amishi, hello, and thank you so much for joining us today.Īmishi Jha: Oh, it’s so great to be here with you, Stephanie. She is a regular contributor to Mindful and and as a person who’s currently struggling with focus, I could not be more glad to have you here today for this conversation. She was selected as a science and public leadership fellow by PopTech and she serves on editorial review boards of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, and Frontiers in Psychology. Amishi’s research focuses on the brain basis of attention, working memory, and mindfulness based training. She’s the author of Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, which has just been published by Harper One. Amishi is a neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. Amishi and I connected a few weeks ago for a Mindful Live session, and we’re pleased to bring you that conversation on Real Mindful today.įor now, I’m very pleased to welcome Amishi Jha to Mindful Live. You can read an excerpt from her book Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day in the December issue of Mindful, which is on newsstands now. We spoke with her in the early days of the pandemic about the military acronym VUCA, which stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous-and how our brains react to VUCA circumstances, plus how mindfulness can help us regain ownership of our attention. Amishi has been featured many times in Mindful and on for her work with high-stress cohorts like first responders and military service members. I’m the managing editor at Mindful magazine and. ![]() You’ll hear all kinds of conversations here about the science of mindfulness, the practice of mindfulness-and the heart of it. We meet here twice a month to introduce you to some of the teachers, thinkers, writers, and researchers who are engaged in the mindfulness movement. This is where we speak mindfully about things that matter. Stephanie Domet: Hello, and welcome to Real Mindful.
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