A light approaches a broad ring at a steady pace. Meet it when it arrives, while including the space around it.
Flow · about 2 minutes · eyes open
The introduction describes a hitter in the batter's box: not straining at a single point but holding the whole field, sensing where the ball will be in relation to his own body. That sense of where something is going to arrive, in the space around you, is attention to space under a different name.
Contact borrows the shape of that moment and slows it right down. A light travels toward a ring. Your task is to meet it when it is inside, without tightening in anticipation and without losing the rest of the screen while you wait.
A light moves toward a wide ring at an unhurried, constant speed. When it is inside the ring, press Meet, tap the field, or press Space. The window for meeting it is generous. There is no advantage in being fast.
Moving your hand or cursor does not change the light's speed and is not read as anything about you. If you prefer reduced motion, the light arrives inside the ring without travelling, and the exercise works the same way.
Rounds appear as tick marks. There is no reaction-time readout, during or after.
Meeting the light inside the ring shows that you pressed at the right time. The exercise does not measure reaction speed as a score, does not infer calm or flow from your timing, and does not record anything about the session.
Contact is the one exercise with a clear moment to get right, which makes it a useful place to notice the urge to tense up and get ahead of the light. The practice is in letting the approach happen.
Clearing comes next and removes the single target altogether. The introduction tells the batter's story in full.
One of seven attention exercises after Les Fehmi's Open Focus method. "Open Focus" is a trademark of its owners; this independent project is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Source: Fehmi & Robbins, The Open-Focus Brain (2007). A wellbeing and education tool, not a medical device or a substitute for professional care. Created by Matt Knapp.