<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The body belongs inside every serious model of... > The body belongs inside every serious model of attention. Posture, breath, movement, sleep, pain, environment, and sensory input alter what the mind can select and sustain; thought is not performed by a disembodied observer floating above its conditions. A changed bodily condition can therefore interrupt a cognitive loop that argument alone has failed to move. **Source:** [[livestreams/Attention Loops and the Patterns That Shape Perception - Workbook|Attention Loops and the Patterns That Shape Perception]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The body belongs inside every serious model of attention. Posture, breath, movement, sleep, pain, environment, and sensory input alter what the mind can select and sustain; thought is not performed by a disembodied observer floating above its conditions. A changed bodily condition can therefore interrupt a cognitive loop that argument alone has failed to move.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-body-belongs-inside-alone-failed-move ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->