Thread: Switching to an internal attention?

While reading the tutorial for WILD, I noticed that the chart said external attention, and internal attention. Please, if you can, answer these questions.

1. What is external and internal attention?

2. How do I know when I am in one of these?

3. How do I switch from one to the other?

Originally Posted by Muggler

While reading the tutorial for WILD, I noticed that the chart said external attention, and internal attention. Please, if you can, answer these questions.

1. What is external and internal attention?

2. How do I know when I am in one of these?

3. How do I switch from one to the other?

External attention - focused on the outside world, like the dog barking outside, your breathing, the radio in the background. In short, external stimulation.

Internal attention - Focusing on your inner self, thinking of the dream world.

Look at it like this, instead of focusing on external stimulation, imagine inner stimulation.

You'll know because you won't be paying any/barely attention at all to the outside world.

Switching from one to another is simple, becoming absorbed in your own imagination/thoughts and not paying attention to the outside world.

Oh! Ok, I get it know! Thank you!