Word: raptness
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...play, and you can bet that the tot will be mesmerized by scenes with strong emotion: a fight or kiss. But some babies have other interests. At the Yale Child Study Center, psychologists Warren Jones, Ami Klin and Sarah Shultz measure when toddlers stop blinking - a reliable indicator of rapt attention. The typical child will stare at the scene of a kiss, but a child with autism will be transfixed by the opening and closing of a door. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
...must not only “educate the mind, but also the heart,” the Dalai Lama said yesterday morning to a rapt audience at Memorial Church in a speech entitled, “Educating the Heart.” The Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education co-hosted the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet. After traditional Tibetan dance performances and introductory remarks by Divinity School Dean William A. Graham and School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, audience members stood in anticipation as the Dalai Lama entered the hall and proceeded...
...Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life By Winifred Gallagher 244 pages; The Penguin Press...
...things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time," writes Winifred Gallagher, author of the new book Rapt. There are things you can't control: the family you are born into or your genes, for example. But that's not important. What is important is what you attend to, those things or people you consciously choose to set your mind on. Defined in the broadest sense of the word, "attention" and focus" can extend to anything. Are you focused on living...
...successes in Swat, comparing himself to another prophet. "I sacrificed my son, my mother and my brother for Islam, following in the path of Abraham. What we have seen in Swat and the tribal areas is the result of the sacrifices at the Red Mosque," he told his rapt audience. "You too should be ready to make sacrifices. The day is not far away when Islam will be enforced in the whole of the country." The crowd erupted with a chant for Jihad...