Introduction -- An addiction to narrow focus -- Exercise : expanding your awareness of visual space -- Sweet surrender : discovering the benefits of synchronous alpha brain waves -- The full complement of attention -- What lies beneath : anxiety -- Exercise : head and hands in open focus -- Dissolving physical pain -- Dissolving emotional pain -- Exercise : dissolving pain -- Love is a way of paying attention : open-focus tools for relationships -- Exercise : heart-centered open focus -- Peak performance -- Living in open focus -- Exercise : how am I now paying attention? -- Attention and psychotherapy -- Exercise : thinking in open focus -- Exercise : seeing in open focus -- Conclusion: Thoughts on the evolution of attention.