 I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 38 and we are going to talk about mindfulness, attention and cognitive control. When we talk about mindfulness, attention and cognitive control, we have to be very much careful that our conscious mind working has to be triggered, so that we are better able to understand the situation, we are better able to come up with our creativity and innovation. In the mindfulness training and in the mindfulness context, remember we have to maintain our certain level of attention, we have to maintain our certain level of focus and that attention and focus is basically the quality is the quality of the mindfulness. So mindfulness thinking is basically triggering our focus on the particular phenomena so that we can do more in depth analysis and our decision making is more optimum. Number two, that there is a link between in and out of the world of the human being. What is happening in the mind, what is going on in the mind and what is happening in the environment, there is a link between these two things and that link basically determines the patterns of our thoughts, our reactions, how they will be in what situation. So mindfulness training, mindfulness promises us that we keep our inner feelings in that situation and keep our outer aspects in that situation and keep our inner feelings in that situation and keep our positivity in that situation and we can make our thinking more focused and established. It is not possible for us to include our thoughts in our mind in our situation analysis or we can ignore the external world issues because our inner mind is pre-occupied. The third important phenomena when we talk about attention and mindfulness, that is basically the primary determinant of experience. We have to see that how our past was, how our psychodynamic development was, and what experiences we had in that psychodynamic development. What were the incidents and incidents of our life that were overall able to develop our thoughts. The fourth important phenomena that we have to keep in mindfulness and intention and that is attention is linked with judgment, character and will. So no doubt as we said earlier that it relates to inner world and outer world in the same way our attention and mindfulness affects our judgment, character, will power and our thinking patterns. So we have to be very careful that how we can do deeper analysis with positive thinking. How we can bring our mindfulness to the present so that our mindlessness and automaticity problems can be overcome. Therefore when we talk about mindfulness attention, remember that our attention has to be focused and when there is focused attention then we can develop the optimal performance. The optimal performance gives us better results. Secondly, we can move towards error free working. We can avoid mistakes. We can move towards doing the right things. We can bring our effectiveness to the present. Apart from this, our mindfulness that can also talk about scattered attention and no doubt the efficiency and effectiveness of our mindfulness processes would be decreased. And obviously as scattered attention our performance will go from the optimum level to the slower level. We will not be able to achieve the best results. And we will be prone to more errors. And when we commit more errors then obviously our results will not be desirable. So now we have to be aware that we have to bring our focus attention towards scattered attention. To bring our focus attention, there are three important phenomena that we have to focus upon. The first one is that we should be able to control our cognitive aspects. We should be able to come up with a phenomena in which we can control our thought processes. We can trigger our conscious mind. And we can bring those things to the present. The second thing is that we need to talk about emotion regulation and our emotional intelligence. We have to have self-awareness. We have to have self-regulation. We have to have empathy. We have to have motivation. So these things will help us self-regulate. How can we respond better according to every situation? Along with this, for mindfulness and attention the third thing which we require, the third thing which we have to focus upon is basically that we should be able to deal with the high stress condition. That instead of going to the distressed level, our stress level should be able to develop towards eustress. And when we are able to control our stress so that our stress can be converted into strain then we can give our performance in the best possible way. If we conclude everything, then dear students remember that to develop mindfulness, we need to have focused attention. With that focused attention, we will be able to achieve optimum results. Thank you.