Sentences with phrase «wandering mind in»

WANDERING MIND In an anthology of wide - ranging essays, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks celebrates the beauty — and mysteries — of the world and the people, animals and plants that inhabit it.

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When you meditate in the morning you refocus your attention, become aware of your thoughts and are able to recognize that your mind naturally wants to wander.

Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, examined brain activity during daydreaming and told the paper that, «people assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty.

Another study led by Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and published in Psychological Science also found that some forms of mind wandering can be beneficial.

During this time, they were randomly assigned to three different conditions: resting in a quiet room, performing a difficult short - term memory task, or doing something so boring that it would elicit mind - wandering.

You definitely know you're in one when your mind wanders to the zillion things you could be accomplishing instead.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

«People assumed that when your mind wandered it was empty,» Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, told The Wall Street Journal.

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

That makes it easier to be in control of your «mind - wandering» time at work, and keep it under control.

Don't worry about how long they would take to make, budget, or whether or not they are realistic in any way — just let your mind wander and see what it believes it could make real.

When I asked her to tell me about her business I could feel my eyes glazing over and my mind wandering to the buffet table without my body in tow.

«The authors concede that mind wandering is probably not suited for making weighty decisions, such as whether to convict a defendant in a trial or to go ahead with a medical procedure.

I sometimes struggled with procrastination — but that procrastination was rooted in a deep desire to do my best work, as well as a tendency to let my mind wander creatively.»

Aside from offering a great workout, those hours of grueling manual chores allowed my mind to wander in sometimes unexpected ways.

This study found that people's brains were thicker in this region when they reported being able to intentionally make their minds wander.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

A sample of research exploring certainty in advice giving, boundary conditions for growth mindset effects, polygenic scores and criminal offending, and strategic modulation of mind wandering... More

It turned out that those who chose posters using mind wandering generally liked and valued their selections as much as those who deliberated over their choices in a more controlled way.

This is reassuring in light of reports that more than 95 per cent of the population experience daily periods of mind wandering.

One paper, «Lost in the Sauce,» by Michael Sayette at the University of Pittsburgh and coauthors, reported that people under the influence are more susceptible to mind wandering, which could be helpful in some scenarios but harmful in others.

The manager's schedule will sound familiar to many of you — a day full of meetings, appointments, and coordination — while the maker, or the creative, needs stretches of uninterrupted time in which you can let your mind both wander and focus and get into a flow.

The primary difference, we found in the posterior cingulate, which is involved in mind wandering, and self relevance.

Occasionally I'm annoyed by a fly buzzing slowly past me (and I'm reminded of a line from a hymn my grandfather claimed to have sung: «There may be flies on you and me, but there ain't no flies on Jesus») Once in a while I feel twinges of boredom as the sermon wears on, or pangs of regret as my mind wanders back to the letters I meant to write the past week.

I remember how an afternoon could pass in such a lazy way when I was that gap - toothed kid with sunshine in her hair, a day passing a slow never - ending way of sunshine and wandering, how minutes blurred into hours, and it was just the way of things, a quieter mind somehow.

Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran church «with a simple liturgy, wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»

Lucretius thought that the soul nestled in the human breast; Descartes located it in the pineal gland; and process theologian John Cobb, following Alfred North Whitehead, hopes to find mind wandering as a thread through the «interstices of the brain,» But if we are truly dealing with metaphysics, then the mind and the soul, like the risen Christ, will not be anywhere, but holistically related to the body.

If so, the soul is the thread of coordinated consciousness wandering through an enveloping unconscious mind composed of all (or many) of the entirely living occasions existing in the cells of the brain.

For example, daydreaming, in distinction from mind - wandering, is a form of self - transcendence.

So sometimes, when we hear «Turn in your Bible to the book of Jonah» not only do we keep our Bibles closed, we zone out completely to what the speaker is saying, and let our mind wander off to the problems at work, who is going to win the football game, or what our neighbor said to us last week.

I start to pray, then my mind wanders from praying for my family to wondering if my sister got my text message to thinking about the last time my sister was in town to figuring out how I can turn a work meeting into a brunch meeting.

Now frequently, the walk home goes quicker, because rather than wandering around slowly into the pattern of sin, you have a definite destination in mind, and so you can take the most direct route, but frequently, true repentance is a process of several months or years.

My mind wandered, the eyes teared up, and one escaped, fortunately unnoticed, as I sat in the pew.

The words can be faithfully spoken while the mind wanders to problems at work, what Mrs. Pilsnick is wearing in church today, and who is going to win the NFL game.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

From my floor - dwelling, my mind wanders... to the girl in the Anthropologie catalog.

I was lying in bed last night, my mind wandering to this and that, when I realized that Dine & Dish had an anniversary last month and I totally...

Ahh... when you take a whiff of fresh mint growing in your own herb garden... your mind can't help but wander... hypnotized by the scent....

Whenever I think of carrots my mind always wanders to this guy Gil, who D and I met while on the Tiger Leaping Gorge hike in China.

And I found my mind wandering to the Green Bowl I had at Be Love in Victoria.

, my mind immediately wandered off to the kitchen, where a huge bag of freshly picked blackberries was sitting in the freezer.

And while I'm hanging out in the kitchen taking in the aroma — I find that my mind will wander and I end up in a very relaxed and contemplative place.

My mind wandered back to last weekend in New Paltz, NY, when my twin sister and ten of her closest chums celebrated her imminent wedding with a good romp through the woods, bathed in sunlight and satiated on these irresistible granola bars.

A few times I downed so many at once my mind started to wander to the girl in Willy Wonka who turned blueberry and had to be rolled away.

Calmly come back to this space whenever your mind wanders, or you notice yourself getting caught in feelings or sensations.

But, remember, when your aim is an ideal summer weekend upstate, the best rule of thumb is to wander and not rush, taking the time to drive along country roads with no destination in mind.

Someone who takes it dreadfully seriously points out that this is really an intellectual sport, not at all like, say, marathoning, in which the mind can be allowed to wander while one runs.

Yellow orchids trail in the river, similarly colored butterflies dance over it, and as the mind wanders in the noonday heat, the ululations of the howler monkeys make it no great imaginative feat to conjure up the towering image of King Kong ripping down the 200 - foot - high, mist - wreathed cedars that stand all around.

«You're out in the middle of the woods where some creepy ass stuff happened, and so your mind could wander, and you would try not to look into the forest for fear of what you might see.

Centre back Oleh Makarov obviously let his mind wander, taking the call in the middle of the game.