To give Attention to

What are the things attention can engage with? I stick with the simple categorization of the world into three parts.

1. A) Thing : Attention given to a clock. B) Event : Attention given the an apple falling from a tree.

2. Others : When attention is engaged by others it can be to think of them or to communicate with them.

3. Self or self thought - A) Attention can engage with behaviors and properties of the physical self B) It can engage with or become thought, as word, vision, etc..

To increase awareness one can think of the details of what they are thinking of.

Attention is a constant phenomena of thought, where as its engagement is automated or selective.

There might be an amount of information or stimulus that the mind or attention can engage. We know through memory tests that : the bigger, quicker, and complicated the experience the less we remember of its composition. Since focus is selective and also conditioned while engaging with "too much" or "irrelevant" information the mind turns away and is able to process information without much confusion.

How attention remains unconfused and begets tactical moves is a hard problem of consciousness (thought).

Every mind lives and has attention within a field of sense and memory. Even cutting off all senses, a person can not interact in that environment without some of the mind going into the factors of the world. Attention depends on every sense as well as thought.

Practicing selective attention can be done with all the prior mentioned factors. This practice can help build sensory and mental skills and can be used to block out annoyers. If there is a stronger or mostly equal stimulus available in the environment an annoyer can go on existing without having its main result, to annoy.

Practicing selective attention makes it possible to focus on the more present concerns, instead of focusing on something like other issues. An example might be of a person who is having relationship issues and is at the same time pursuing a degree in some field. If their selective attention was practiced they might have an easier time to process the immediate important data.