“What’s held in attention has the power to change your brain.
Controlling your attention – becoming more able to place it where you want it and keep it there, and more able to pull it away from what’s bothersome or pointless (such as looping again and again through anxious preoccupations, mental grumbling, or self-criticism)
– is the foundation of changing your brain, and thus your life, for the better.”
-Rick Hanson, PhD
a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley