Notes: Movement related to thinking. Quieter the mind is the more you can regard them. etc Focus related to eye movement: Exercise with full focus on dot to that of varying degree of focus when mind is distracted by thoughts.
Thinking pulls you out of that condensed focus. Splits off focus and brings you out of present and back into movement of thoughts. This can be to the point of being distracted from present so caught up in your head that you lose touch with present ( Eckart Tolle. The Power of The Now. Buddhism delusional states)
Then getting present we find Stillness. (Thoughts distract form present focus. Zen's monkey mind) Similar to process of getting into present space with animal.
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Mindful Regard: However focusing on movement can still be a focus on that movement in present:Â Which is mindful regard. Feeling the moment with other senses available to us. Consciousness of that movement. and process.
James teaches this as regarding them peripherally. Sensing them with Beingness. Other sense data.
Mindful regard fully focused on the movement of visible body language and sense of energetic exchanges, with the regard. It helps the animal feel fully acknowledged and that fundamental acknowledgement is and existentially critical connection.