#005 - Steering Consciousness: The Attentional System
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Attention shapes everything — what we notice, how we feel, and who we become.
Aliceanne and Ryan explore the attentional system — the inner mechanism that determines what we see and what we miss. They move from the everyday (“why am I mad at the mailbox?”) into the sacred: how attention, when trained, becomes a doorway to healing, intimacy, and awakening.
Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and spiritual tradition, they weave together stories of emotional hijacking, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the blind spots we inherit from childhood, and how awareness transforms pain into wisdom. From Jesus and the Good Samaritan to modern meditation and the science of self-regulation, this is an episode about learning to see again — with the mind, the heart, and the whole of our being.
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00:00 – Arrival
00:36 – Anniversary Reflections
01:25 – What Is Attention, Really?
02:44 – The Camera of Consciousness
04:11 – A Simple Exercise in Seeing
05:17 – When Attention Gets Hijacked
08:00 – Turning Toward Pain or Away
12:05 – Movement as Medicine - Putting One Foot in Front of the Other
14:05 – The Ordinary Made Sacred
20:00 – Why We Have an Attentional System
21:19 – Maslow’s Hierarchy Revisited
28:44 – The Systems of the Psyche
33:34 – The Story of the Friend Who Never Felt Thirst
39:00 – Seeing Through the Heart
44:00 – Consider the Lilies
48:49 – Attention, Attachment, and the Heart–Mind Dance
53:00 – From Atonement to At-Onement
56:03 – Infinite (and secular!) Doorways to the Divine
1:01:04 – Attention as Healing Practice
1:13:00 – Turning Toward Pain: The Practice of Sobriety & Healing our Addictions
1:22:40 – Control vs. Intimacy
1:24:33 – Being vs. Doing
1:33:10 – Love as the Ground of Being
1:37:00 – Attention as Openness
1:41:00 – Practical Tools for Training Attention
1:46:00 – Compassion as Gravity
1:49:00 – Closing Reflections
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