Conscious vs. habit

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Conscious attention

• Saxophone
• Pain, tension, relaxation
• Sounds: hard drive, appliances, a few bird calls, a car or two
• Build failures

Conscious action

• Guitar exercises
• Trying to relax my back
• Reading to take my mind off things
• Walking clockwise around the house
• Fixing images, formatting
• Learning Antora, Jenkins pipelines

Unconscious/habitual attention

• Ruminating pain again at night
• Cats

Unconscious/habitual action

• Eating, tensing upWincing
• Cycling, affirmations