Choosing How You Pay Attention to Yourself Is Almost the Definition of Consciousness

In a quirky way, how you pay attention to yourself is the one thing you can most 'control.' If ever there was an act that fit the definition of 'voluntary,' it is the choice to pay attention. The quirk is that sometimes the best attention is the glance out of the corner of your eye—the glimpse rather than the foveal stare, some sort of soft, paradoxical and utterly accepting gaze...

[obv connects to an arc i have already started about how Feldenkrais uses one type of conscious attention and gets the other type out of the way, and i'll continue that arc]