LIFE IN FOCUS

  If consistent, you will get it. If persistent, you will keep it. Focus, an important mental asset, is directed attention.  In our ever growing complex and distracted world, our ability to focus is diminishing dramatically, and this is affecting learning and retention of material, deep thinking, and problem solving. Bombarded by interruptions throughout our day from notifications, pings, and vibrations emanating from our digital devices, we barely can settle down and approach a task long enough before becoming interrupted.  This consistent shift in attention is creating executive functioning fatigue, which in turn compromises our  decision making abilities. In order to accomplish  great things, discerning between productivity and busy-ness is crucial. Productivity requires clarity, while busy-ness does not.  Busy-ness generally has no substantive end -goal in sight.   Many are busy. Few are focused. Our brains love and seek focused attention....

The first wealth is health. -Ralph Waldo Emerson PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY (PNI) The immune system's chief function is to prevent or limit infection, and as long as it's running smoothly, we will not know it's there. It quietly and efficiently does its job recognizing and neutralizing harmful substances from the environment and fighting disease-causing pathogens.  Without our immune system, we would have no way of fighting off these harmful invaders.  Decades ago, it was believed the immune system operated within itself rather than as the well-integrated system in constant communication with the brain and nervous system that we now know it to be. Not only do these systems communicate, but each affects the other in profound ways. Their synergy is both staggering and powerful and collectively coined psychoneuroimmunology , or PNI, for short. The PNI model comprises 3 major components:  Psychological Neurological Immunological  My interest in PNI began approximat...