Excessive and prolonged stress, or the poor ability to cope with stress, can negatively affect everything in our lives: our health, relationships, job performance and emotional well-being. Open Focus is a practical and effective method for reducing stress-related symptoms and enhancing well-being, using principles developed in the field of biofeedback.
Open Focus practice helps to develop attentional skills, the most basic behavior in which we engage. Open Focus attention training encourages awareness of how you attend to the wide array of sensory experiences-and the space between those experiences. Learning to foster attention that is nonexclusive and nonjudgmental supports in integrating your experiences with openness and flexibility.
These techniques will help you relieve stress, manage physical pain, regulate emotions, and set the stage for peak performance and transcendent moments. Practiced regularly, they can bring about dramatic changes in your life.
Open Focus Level 1 - Skills for Physical & Mental Mastery
1 Introduction to Open Focus 51:44
2 Introduction to Open Focus Practice 27:14
3 Head and Hands 34:34
4 Long Form 36:09
5 Short Form 24:13
6 General Practice 28:06
7 Dissolving Physical / Emotional Pain 22:31
Open Focus Level 2 - Alleviating Stress Related Physical & Emotional Pain
1 Dissolving Pain & Other Experience 29:21
2 Joint Space in Open Focus 25:02
3 Heart Centered Open Focus 26:06
4 Localizing Feeling, Emotion & Pain 27:02
5 How Am I Paying Attention? 20:04
6 Transfer of Open Focus to Daily Life 28:56
Open Focus Level 3 - Optimizing Performance and Function
1 Feeling in Open Focus 31:28
2 Listening in Open Focus 32:04
3 Thinking in Open Focus 32:02
4 Seeing in Open Focus 51:58
5 Racquet Sports Training 20:36
6 Independent Practice of Open Focus 19:47
The Open Focus Brain book
This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress—and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more. To improve these conditions, Dr. Fehmi explains that we must learn to return to a relaxed, diffuse, and creative form of attention, which he calls “Open Focus.”
This highly readable and empowering book offers straightforward explanations and simple exercises on how to shift into a more calm, open style of attention that reduces stress, improves health, and enhances performance. The Open-Focus Brain features eight essential attention exercises for improving health, along with an audio CD in which the author guides the reader through fundamental Open-Focus exercises that can be used on a regular basis to enhance our health and well-being.
1 Intro 0:42
2 General Instructions 4:21
3 Head & Hands in Open-Focus 28:46
4 General Open-Focus Training 26:41
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