Attenuation leads to absorption

[Songtsan]

at·ten·u·ate (-tny-t)

v. at·ten·u·at·ed, at·ten·u·at·ing, at·ten·u·ates

v.tr.

1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.

2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attenuated the fever's effect.

3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.

4. Biology To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.

5. Electronics To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.

v.intr.

To become thin, weak, or fine.

adj. (-y-t)

1. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.

2. Botany Gradually tapering to a slender point.

 

[Thunder_Gooch]

As far as networking goes higher attenuation is a bad thing, you want lower attenuation.

 

So if you are looking to absorb knowledge and information I'd say you want a HIGH signal to noise ratio, and a low attenuation in your practice

Edited June 11, 2013 by More_Pie_Guy

[Songtsan]

As far as networking goes higher attenuation is a bad thing, you want lower attenuation.

 

So if you are looking to absorb knowledge and information I'd say you want a HIGH signal to noise ratio, and a low attenuation in your practice

 

awesome - you helped

[joeblast]

of importance - what are you attenuating?

 

that's why I usually include signal to noise ratio. esp with breathing. find & identify known signals, attenuate them, then the overall noise level (or noise floor - everything beneath the noise floor is ostensibly too noisy to determine signal...) drops - with the noise floor having dropped, there is a higher overhead for signals to manifest.

 

another audio example - it is possible to take a CD quality recording (16 bit 44KHz) and resample (i.e. re-record) it in 24 bit 96KHz format, and the way the math divides it really has the net effect of being able to increase the depth of that 16 to something more like 20 bit - so while you didnt bring that 16 bit up to as good as it was as if it was outright recorded 24 bit, but the splitting and recalculating does wind up recouping a few bits of ostensible headroom. (See Bob Katz' Mastering Audio - the art and science...)

 

so basically "expanded awareness" is analogous to an increase in the bit depth, and you get that by utter and complete stillness, the method is identifying signal that one has good control over and streamlining until it gets quiet, then the resultant neurological chains also cease, further lowering the noise floor. all that extra headroom is expanded, still, focused awareness.

Edited June 11, 2013 by joeblast

[Songtsan]

I think one-pointed focus is exactly attentuation....you slowly start to reduce the signal interference of all incoming stimuli while keeping the signal of the thing you are focusing on high....attenuation happens naturally - the mind/body attenuates the stimuli it finds non-novel and non-threatening in order to focus on the things it sees as more important or as a threat. Mindful meditation is hard because the thing you focus on is considered harmless by the bodymind to a large extent, so the minds tendency is to get distracted by 'more interesting things.' By wrestling this pattern and reversing it, we come to a new place...