Dr. Zelana Montminy

We can always try to step outside, looking away from your screen toward a tree or whatever it is, ending your day with a few minutes of an attention walk outside, no headphones and

or ear pods, like nothing, no input.

Just try for five minutes.

It's going to feel really challenging because our brain just isn't trained for that anymore.

But we need to recalibrate because our nervous system is suffering.

Ooh, that's a big question.

I think it's not really dependent on personality types.

I think it's just dependent on how well you can currently focus, how often you reach toward distractions or want to interrupt your focus time.

And so I think definitely focus has to be trained and focused.

we have to be able to sustain our voluntary attention.

So I think it has to do more, less with sort of personality types and more to do with like, how good are you at it already?

And I think you just start small.

Most of us are really not great at it.

So set a timer for three to five minutes, honestly.

It can be super, super simple.

And you can just...

it's not a meditation but just to think that to focus on one thing i call it single tasking for five minutes try not to reach for anything else or think about anything else and then you're gonna start little by little building that muscle back you might drift and then just go back and notice that drift but go back and it's really important the best thing we can do is that mono tasking choosing that one thing even if you're doing something monotonous like washing dishes

reading, writing, whatever it is, have a defined start time and only do that one thing for that chunk of time.

No background music, no background TV, no toggling, no tabs.

This builds our neural endurance and it's really important for all of us.