Attention Training

Media

The Effect of a Single Word

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on December 9, 2025

Personal Perspective: This song has been around and enjoyed since 1934. The refrain contains a well-known line that Sinatra changed.

Personal Perspective: This song has been around and enjoyed since 1934. The refrain contains a well-known line that Sinatra changed.

Memory

If You Love Fall

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on September 10, 2025

Achieve a rich sense of calm energy this autumn. Here's how.

Achieve a rich sense of calm energy this autumn. Here's how.

Self-Help

Craft a Jogging Playlist for the Mindset and Energy You Need

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on June 17, 2025

Some joggers can't even think of hitting the road without music, as it helps vault the experience to greater heights. But is there anything we can do to enhance this effect?

Some joggers can't even think of hitting the road without music, as it helps vault the experience to greater heights. But is there anything we can do to enhance this effect?

Productivity

Healthful Beats: Create a Playlist That Keeps You Balanced

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on March 21, 2025

Music has the ability to move you through a variety of mental states. With the right playlist, you may be able to put music's power to work for you.

Music has the ability to move you through a variety of mental states. With the right playlist, you may be able to put music's power to work for you.

Philosophy

Feeling Boxed In? 3 Ways to Rebalance This Seasonal Effect

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on October 23, 2023

Are you feeling boxed in as we enter this specific time of year?

Are you feeling boxed in as we enter this specific time of year?

Cognition

Nonverbal Children: An Interview With Ed Fennell

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on July 23, 2023

An interview with Ed Fennell, MSW, about nonverbal children.

An interview with Ed Fennell, MSW, about nonverbal children.

Cognition

8 Ways to Energize Your Jogging Playlist

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on May 7, 2023

Many of us are thinking of ways we can improve our spring and summer jogs.

Many of us are thinking of ways we can improve our spring and summer jogs.

Environment

Getting Your Energy in Sync With the Season

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on February 20, 2023

Enter this forward momentum, and flow.

Enter this forward momentum, and flow.

Wisdom

3 Ways to Balance Your Seasonal Energies

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on November 25, 2022

There are five types of energy that dominate at different times within seasonal (and all smaller, including moment-by-moment) cycles.

There are five types of energy that dominate at different times within seasonal (and all smaller, including moment-by-moment) cycles.

Creativity

When Is It Time to Change Your Internal Model of Reality?

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on September 6, 2022

Aidan McCullen, author of "Undisruptable," discusses creating a mindset of reinvention in this Q&A.

Aidan McCullen, author of "Undisruptable," discusses creating a mindset of reinvention in this Q&A.

Flow

How Metaphor Can Help You Find the Hidden You

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on June 26, 2022

This literary tool treads the fine line between art and cognition. It can open the gate between your outer and inner worlds.

This literary tool treads the fine line between art and cognition. It can open the gate between your outer and inner worlds.

Relationships

How to Connect With Your Unworldly Love and Why

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on March 31, 2022

Perhaps you know someone who seems detached in a sad, real-time situation yet will cry his eyes out witnessing a similar situation in a movie.

Perhaps you know someone who seems detached in a sad, real-time situation yet will cry his eyes out witnessing a similar situation in a movie.

Attention

Try a Little Brain Talk to Achieve Better Attention

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on January 18, 2022

Try this self-scan activity to help you change automatic behaviors so that they better attend to and synchronize with your goals.

Try this self-scan activity to help you change automatic behaviors so that they better attend to and synchronize with your goals.

Attention

One Effective Way to Improve Your Attention

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on November 4, 2021

Consider using this strategy when you want to improve your focus in a specific situation.

Consider using this strategy when you want to improve your focus in a specific situation.

Mindfulness

Cancer and Mindfulness: More Than Just Being Present

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on August 9, 2021

Letting go is important to cancer patients. Mindfulness is a way to “mechanically” make yourself let go. By adjusting the energy, letting go becomes a result rather than a command.

Letting go is important to cancer patients. Mindfulness is a way to “mechanically” make yourself let go. By adjusting the energy, letting go becomes a result rather than a command.

Attention

Do You Need to Free Up More Headspace?

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on May 25, 2021

Nobody sets out to relinquish valuable headspace. Yet most of us have moments when we feel like we just can’t think about one more thing.

Nobody sets out to relinquish valuable headspace. Yet most of us have moments when we feel like we just can’t think about one more thing.

Motivation

How to Maximize Spring's Shifting Energies

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on March 2, 2021

There is something about us that organically wants to be free. Here are a few tips for sustaining some positive energy this spring and using it to feel a little freer.

There is something about us that organically wants to be free. Here are a few tips for sustaining some positive energy this spring and using it to feel a little freer.

Stress

Feeling Wiped Out?

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on December 10, 2020

This one remedy can go a long way.

This one remedy can go a long way.

Relationships

“I’ll Never Do That Again,” and Then—Well, You Do

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on September 25, 2020

We all have that one thing we keep doing or saying in our relationship that we wish we could stop. Here's a solution.

We all have that one thing we keep doing or saying in our relationship that we wish we could stop. Here's a solution.

Attention

Too Tired to Meditate?

Joseph Cardillo Ph.D. on June 30, 2020

How you can control the energy of being awake.

How you can control the energy of being awake.