Focus on angry or divisive news reports, and we'll feel angry or divisive. The book's first revelation is the link between our attention and our emotions. It is ten times more valuable a decade later. Her book was important in 2009, only two years after the iPhone entered our lives. Winifred Gallagher wrote about the effects of attention in her 2009 book, Rapt: Attention and Focused Life. If physically we are what we eat, mentally and emotionally we are what we pay attention to. Like our choices about food, our choices about what we pay attention to have consequences for our wellness.
We can only focus on a small portion of what is in range of our sight and hearing. Our senses are bombarded with an infinite number of inputs, available through technology at any moment of the day. We still need to be careful about what we eat, but there is another phrase we need to keep in mind: You are what you pay attention to. The world has changed in the 21st century. It suggests a need to distinguish healthy food from an abundance of options, some of which are not good for us. It implies a responsibility to make choices about what we put in our bodies. This phrase became part of American culture in the 20th century as people began to care more for their physical health.
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