Dr. Dave Rabin

every time you let your attention wander and swipe or scroll or distract yourself and not come back to the goal then your muscle starts to fatigue and become weak your attention muscle weakens right so we don't we don't we just want to make sure that we're intentional about how we're thinking how we use our attention and realizing how important this muscle really is because as we train it we can actually start to understand how to take more control over our lives we can start to understand how to

optimize healing, optimize recovery, and just feel better generally day to day because attention control allows us to filter incoming information.

So when you're overwhelmed, when you're stressed, when you feel like you have a million things going on that seem out of your control and you don't know what to do, that's the time your attention muscle comes in and you can be like, wow, I can self-regulate anxiety.

I can make my mood better at will.

I can improve my energy at will.

Those are all human abilities we're born with the ability to do.

Why we haven't taught them to people beats me, right?

But I think that's why now that we know that Western science explains these attention training techniques that have been thousands of years old from Eastern and tribal medicine,

This must be integrated into education.

And you don't have to be taught this in school.

You can learn it any time just by realizing that it exists.

But it needs to be integrated into schools because it's so much easier to teach kids how to do this when they're young than to teach them to distract or numb themselves to stress.

Yeah.

I have to keep my phone on Do Not Disturb with the face down.

All day.

Yeah, I'm on D&D all day.

And that's a really simple way to start to regulate, right?

People often think, oh, this is going to be so hard.

It's not that hard.

It's just about being intentional.