The Absorbed Mind
The Unified Absorption Model: A Framework for Consciousness and Change.
Absorption is a central mechanism behind lasting change. Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical hypnotherapy and evidence across psychology, neuroscience, trauma, addiction, meditation, and flow, John O. Wylie presents a unified model of how attention, dissociation, and automaticity organize experience—and how emotion steers the patterns that shape behavior and identity.
Absorption shapes what becomes dominant in experience—and what repeated experience becomes.
Absorption
The process in which attention becomes organized, competing information loses influence, and experience unfolds with greater automaticity.
Shared Processes
A framework that identifies the shared processes underlying hypnosis, meditation, flow, trauma, anxiety, addiction, learning, and everyday change.
Change
A practical model of how absorbed experience establishes patterns of emotion, behavior, belief, and identity—and how those patterns are redirected.
A unified framework for consciousness and change.
The Absorbed Mind brings together more than twenty years of clinical experience and evidence across psychology, neuroscience, hypnosis, trauma, addiction, meditation, and flow. The result is a grounded framework describing how attention, dissociation, and automaticity organize experience—and how emotion steers the absorbed patterns that shape suffering, identity, skilled performance, and change.
- A clear, accessible introduction to the Unified Absorption Model.
- A framework connecting fields and experiences often studied separately.
- Practical ways to recognize and redirect absorption in everyday life.
- An evidence-informed account of how repeated experience establishes lasting patterns—and how new experience produces durable change when it becomes sufficiently absorbed.
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