“Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness,” Killingsworth says (based on a study he headed). “In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged.”
It means that a person wakes up and “takes control of the steering wheel” of their attention again.
The practice of mindfulness is maintaining a moment-to-moment awareness of our experiences without judgement. It is the moment by moment awareness of what we are thinking, emotions we are feeling, physical sensations we are experiencing, along with what is occurring in our surrounding environment.
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