Mindfulness training teaches us to be curious and open to whatever the present moment holds. We learn to remain comfortable while witnessing - the moderate position between the extremes of hypervigilance and inattentiveness.
A degree of generosity or caring towards the focus of one's attention also appears to be necessary. "Scientific objectivity", and similar forms of intellectual distancing, now appear to be problematic on many levels.
"You learn about a thing ... by opening yourself wholeheartedly to it. You learn about a thing by loving it." Barbara McClintock - Nobel prize-winning geneticist
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