Attention is usually investigated as a process toward the outside world. In the last twenty years has increased in the cognitive sciences interest for first person methodologies to investigate the experience. The increasing use of such methodologies has placed the problem of how to activate and mobilize inward attention, by accessing what is presented as experience. From the enactive approach of Francisco Varela, the article aims to discuss how the deployment of inward attention depends on how it is embodied in a context and situation. With the enactive approach, we broaden the notion of attention and conclude that attention turned inward is not just a process of self-observation, but may be a process of self-production.
cognition; inward attention; first-person methodologies