Conscious vs. habit

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Conscious attention

• Smells: bananas, prunes, some very damp air, incense.

Conscious action

• Reading.
• Dinner, chewing thoroughly.
• Guitar exercises.
• Meditation, ritual, throwing the wands.
• Counterclockwise round the house.
• Finishing the Antora migration.
• Breaking to walk, read, shave shower.
• Preparing for the docs meeting.

Unconscious/habitual attention

• Totally focused on the computer, and on work. Forgetting to take breaks.

Unconscious/habitual action

• Flopping on the couch after dinner and taking it easy.
• Sometimes I so want to finish something that I forget to pay attention to what I'm doing.