{"id":170,"date":"2025-11-05T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/contemplative-pedagogy\/?post_type=chapter&p=170"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:54:42","slug":"noticing-the-movement-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/contemplative-pedagogy\/chapter\/noticing-the-movement-of-attention\/","title":{"raw":"Noticing the movement of attention","rendered":"Noticing the movement of attention"},"content":{"raw":"

Joseph Siddiqi<\/h4>\r\n
\r\n\r\nThis presentation grew out of an insight I had in my own studio practice\u2014specifically, a connection between painting and mindfulness.\r\n\r\nI share this with students during lectures in my painting and drawing classes. After introducing the core ideas, I invite students to try a short mindfulness practice focused on an object of their choosing. Afterward, I ask questions that help frame mindfulness not as a rigid state of concentration, but as a dynamic process of noticing, returning, and being present with experience as it unfolds.\r\n\r\nMy aim is to help students develop a deeper relationship to perception\u2014through simple exercises that slow down the process of seeing and open up space for reflection. I\u2019m trying to help them discover how attention works: how quickly it moves and jumps to conclusions, but also how it can settle, open, and return to the present.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n[iframe src=\"https:\/\/concordia.yuja.com\/V\/Video?v=1251145&node=7122905&a=106584170\" width=80%]\r\n

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