get absorbed with everything, attention focus

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hi there,

i have read about hyperfocus and think of it as the state which i have when i am sitting at a very quiet place and can think very deeply about something i want to without any interruptions. That was what i thought so far was called hyperfocus.

However, i sit often at the computer, being absorbed with something, clicking here and there, oftenly checking if there is any new message on WP, and it takes a while until i realize that i don't do anything important, or that the thing i intended to do and which caused me to do this and that is not at least as important as something else. Often i feel that i should take a break after every half an hour, calm down and not totally get dragged into something, and try to keep a cool head.

What is this? This putting too much attention into something, also if there is no clear intention to really want something. Is this causual being absorbed within something also hyperfocus? Or is it something else? attention problem?

Is there any way to better keep an overview of the situation? and keep away from being absorbed?

thanks,
anton

It might still be hyperfocus. Possibly you're so focussed on the task in hand that you have no free brain capacity to judge the importance of what you're doing? Importance is a "big picture" thing, and to judge it, you have to step back from the task and look at the overview. Even then it's not easy......you'd probably be OK judging the importance of the results of your activity, but some things are important because they're cathartic or just plain fun.

These days I'm trying hard not to worry about wasting my time, and see life as more of a recreational thing, as long as I'm reasonably hard-headed about maintaining my life support systems.

The only way I found is to cut out things in your life that you get horribly fixated on, I threw my own imac away, got rid of my TV so the only thing left in my room was a keyboard (piano) and weights and I started to exercise and do piano practice rather than waste my time on the computer. I had urges to go on the computer but it was in the bin so I couldn't, I still wasted time getting fixated on other things but not as much.