How focus changes as you progress in CEVAM
When you first begin practicing Closed-Eyes Visual Attention Meditation, focus feels effortful. You are constantly noticing that your mind has wandered and deliberately bringing it back to the visual field. This is not a failure – it is exactly how attentional control is trained.
In this early stage, you are actively applying top‑down control to keep the visual cortex engaged, which suppresses alpha activity. Each return strengthens the neural circuits that support sustained attention.
From Effort to Effortlessness
With practice, something changes. The mind becomes quieter, and fewer thoughts pull you away from the visual field. You no longer have to push attention as much – it stays engaged more naturally.
This is effortless attention: the visual system remains active and alpha remains suppressed without constant conscious effort.
Why This Matters for CEVAM
What improves with training is your ability to keep the visual cortex engaged for longer stretches of time. That sustained engagement keeps alpha activity low, which is the core target of CEVAM.
Depending on how your feedback is mapped, this may result in more or less sound – but in all cases it reflects a deeper capacity to hold attention without slipping into idle, alpha‑dominant states.
The Takeaway
You begin by forcing focus. You end by resting in it. Attune lets you train that transition by showing you, in real time, how long you can keep alpha suppressed through attention.
Ready to experience effortless focus?
