Sentences with phrase «how wandering minds»

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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.

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.»

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.

Any of you who have ever tried to meditate — or even to say the Lord's Prayer all the way through without letting your mind wander off — know how difficult this is.

When I try to imagine what Heaven is like, my mind eventually wanders to how enjoyable it will be to enjoy eternity with the likes of C.S. Lewis.

When I try to imagine what Heaven is like, my mind eventually wanders to how satisfying it will be to enjoy eternity with the likes of C.S. Lewis.

If one dares to let one's mind wander, Shaw will confront that singer with his piercing blue eyes and a «how could you?»

My mind started to wander, wondering how I could sell the one I have, and turn around and buy one of these Svan highchairs for my baby girl.

The overall rate of mind wandering was the same for both groups, but critically, there were significant differences in rates of intentional and unintentional mind wandering, depending on how challenging the task was.

As you read these sentences, your mind will almost certainly wander at least once — just as mine is drifting as I decide how best to phrase these words so that they hold your attention.

It's amazing how one thought can possess you and wander around in your mind and keep you from focusing.

This week, the Savvy Psychologist explains why mind wandering happens, when it's good, when it's bad — and how it might even lead to your own «Eureka!»

A wandering mind could even be a key weapon in your cognitive arsenal — if you know how to use it.

Participants also filled out a questionnaire about how much their mind wandered in daily life.

Only in the past decade have they even measured just how common mind wandering is.

Unfortunately, current interpretations of mind wandering exclude affect and how it is elicited by simple abstract properties of cognition.

If mind wandering is defined as exploratory cognitions that have novel content, then it must be explained how novel content impels behavior.

In the top picture, where a person's mind is wandering, the blue dots are slightly larger, showing how the reader is staring at words a bit longer.)

To check that their machine - learning algorithm was correctly separating the focused mind from the wandering mind, D'Mello and his colleagues looked at how much the students in his experiment were actually learning through the educational software, which also tracked students» progress.

I understood that as long as I was offering all that I could afford to offer it didn't matter what my poses looked like, how many times my mind wandered away from my breath, or how often I looked around the room instead of maintaining my drishti.

How - to: If your mind is wandering, but you need to focus, drop some rosemary on your palms and inhale.

Your child will learn how to sit still in one place and focus on what's important, as opposed to allowing their mind wander and become easily distracted.

Learning how to link poses together feels really good, and allows you to focus on the present moment rather than giving the mind time to wander... it's like a moving meditation!

Keep in mind, for instance, that it's common for your mind to wander during meditation, no matter how long you've been practicing meditation.

My wandering mind started connecting the dots between how I felt in class to what I was eating — the former a result of the egg and cheese bagel for breakfast or late night ice cream treat.

Loving Kindness Meditation — More Thoughts Some less experienced meditators complain about how easily the mind's wandering thoughts distract them from paying attention and deepening concentration.

I don't really know how to guide anyone to finding their home decor taste... but I guess I'd say follow your heart, and see where your mind wanders too.

She was describing how a friend felt about something (obviously my mind was wandering just a bit!)

If there's a dealbreaker for audiences or commercially minded critics, it's the fact that the narrative tends to grow unwieldy and wanders non-linearly from a coming - of - age story to something much more complex and wider (and no doubt autobiographical) about how the post-war generation's social upheaval and radical thinking damaged the children of this era (of which Potter was clearly one).

In the middle of it, I caught my mind wandering and wondering how provocateur Michael Haneke might have reshaped this second - rate thriller in look, tone, and content.

Charlotte Roberts, a graduate teaching assistant for N.C. State's College of Education, leads a class discussion in October 2017 on how to keep students» minds from wandering.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about «mind - wandering» — or zoning out of what you are doing — and how it affects students at school.

I need that time to sit and just let my mind wander over the folds of a book, rather than reading it and immediately cranking out how I feel about it.

You let their minds wander and they'll be learning how to open your refrigerator in no time or figuring out how to get the secret stash on top of it.

On my way to a recent flight, while I was frantically putting my shoes back on among a pushy crowd in that tiny space past the scanning machine, my mind began to wander from its immediate train of thought (which, at that moment, included a fantasy involving my shoe coming into contact with the person's head behind me) to one that was slightly more peaceful and productive: How can the process of flying be improved outside of the plane?

«This study tells us that mind wandering affects how variable the driving speed is when people drive, which has safety implications,» Geden says.

Every time I see the original trilogy now and see Luke my mind will wander to «hey, remember how Luke seriously contemplated — and nearly acted on — killing a kid in his sleep» or «remember how this badass Jedi Knight dies from hologramming too much».

No matter how easy it is to let your mind wander off, always pay attention to your work.

As I finally began to enjoy the ride, I let my mind wander to a recent coaching conversation where my client shared how fear gripped her as she wondered if there was another job for her out there.

I LOVE how our minds wander!

I often hop in the car and wander, get lost for a while on back roads, and snap photos — mostly of barns that boggle the mind on how they still stand.