Effect Of Mind Wandering On The Processing Of Relevant And Irrelevant Events

These effects of mind wandering has been shown to be inefficient towards learning and this is due to the fact that while we are engaged in mind wandering our attention is on our internal thoughts and feelings therefore mind wandering impairs the ability to integrate any new information from the external environment (Smallwood et al., 2007). Relating this principle to myself it was clearly evident to me that meditation serves as an antidote for a wandering mind it is beneficial in gaining wisdom about oneself, experiencing positive emotions and improving day to day learning (Moneyham and Schooler, 2013).

The film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which was converted to a movie from a short story, talks about the negative consequences of daydreaming. Walter, who is the protagonist of the movie, daydreams in his daily life frequently. He imagines extraordinary events and loses his connection with the world. This habit of Walter Mitty leads him into a couple of bad consequences. His colleagues make fun of him while Walter Mitty was daydreaming. For instance, his boss says, “Do you think, if I hit him with a paper clip, would he move?” (Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) and throws a paper clip to him. This movie showed me that people cannot think properly and their relation with the real world disappears as they daydream. That’s why, they cannot notice what is going on around them, which is a negative

As human beings, we are constructed with human emotions and mental capacity such as the unconscious and conscious state of being that facilitate our actions and decision, but can we control our mind or is it an inevitable action and thought? In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, he elaborates that it’s possible to discipline and restraint our unconscious and conscious. This book helps illustrate the complexity and serene our human minds and self-judgement that we conspire within the first seconds of any situation as we go through in our lives separately but use similar mental strategies without thinking about them.

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Siegel provides enlightening guidance in his chapter through using clearly explained analogies, metaphors, diagrams, emerging neuroscience research, and spiritual wisdom. In Part I of this novel, the author primarily focuses on the structure and bountiful abilities of the brain, such as neuroplasticity, “the term used to describe the capacity for creating new neural connections and growing new neurons in response to experience” (5). These new neural connections make way for change, by not only strengthening the areas that one may be weak in, but by also learning how to make better and more conscious choices when faced with turbulence. In Part II, Siegel explores the real-world accounts of this turbulence and how patients are able to utilize mindsight to change how they focus their attention by finding a

Has daydreaming even taken over your life? In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, is about a man, Walter Mitty, who is kind of pathetic and many people laugh at him. Walter daydreams a lot in order to escape reality. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter works at Life Magazine and goes on an adventure to find the missing picture that is going to be used for the cover of the next magazine. Walter starts off boring and pathetic, but begins to make his daydreams his reality as his dreams become less of a fantasy. In the film, the setting takes place all over the world including Iceland, Greenland, and Afghanistan. Although in the story, the setting takes place only in Waterbury, Connecticut. They both have similarities and differences throughout the story.

Focusing on the present-moment internal and external experience broadens attention and allows for suspension of previously practiced patterns of reacting (anticipation or over engagement), sometimes called decentering (KQED, 2016). The practice of mindfulness with curiosity and acceptance strengthens tolerance for distress by altering automatic response patterns described previously. When practiced regularly, mindfulness can provide a powerful tool for restoring emotional balance and preventing engagement in harmful behavior (Charlotte Twizell,

In part 3, well deconstruct some of the underlying mechanisms that keep us mired in unproductive behaviors. In part 4, we’ll discuss the proper care and feeding of a human mind so that we can reduce the power that it holds over us.” This book is to help us live with our minds when they are driving us crazy. It is to help us to understand what the mind is doing, why it is doing it, and how we can live our lives anyway.

Let's just start out by clarifying that I am not normal. I am partly normal it’s just I just drift off a lot. By that I mean I just start to daydream in the middle of nowhere. Like one time I was just sitting there in the middle of class and then all of a sudden the roof was ripped off by Godzilla. Then Godzilla started speaking in a high pitched woman’s voice. It sounded like my teacher,”Aiden, Aiden do your work.” That is just one example of my daydreams.

Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert wrote a short reading about how supposedly a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The question that is being asked is if this statement is actually a true statement or merely an opinion of some variety. With this being said I can already tell psychology majors will likely not be overly happy with this clause. The article itself will probably intrigue young minds since are thinking process tends to be a little different and more exposed to certain things. Why I said psychology majors would take issue with this article is because they contemplate this stuff very carefully, particularly when it comes to thought processing and behavioral patterns. For then they would attempt a different approach way

The doing mind is goal oriented such as trying to avoid a specific mood or behavior. The doing mind focuses on the steps to that need to be taken to achieve this goal and tries to lessen the gap between where the person is and where person wants to be (Prochaska & Norcross, 2014). If the person’s actions allow him or her to achieve the goal the person will be able to exit the doing mind. However, if the goal is not achieved, he or she will get stuck in the loop and will focus his or her attention on the gap and the problem. In contrast, the being mind focuses on experiencing the present mind as it is without judgement or any pressure to change it. The being mind has a direct and intimate experience with the present (NREPP, 2012).

Mitty is not unusual because all people daydream. “People Daydream Almost Half the Day, Harvard Study Finds” is an

The Stream of Consciousness was introduced by William James over 100 years ago. It means that our consciousness moves ahead with continuity. James suggested that this theme can serve as a major focus for psychology. (James, 1890). Isn’t it strange, though, that psychology almost never speaks of this dimension? We might talk about emotions, perceptions, actions or desires, but almost never about “the inner thought flow.”

Thinking critically, possessing a biopsychosocial approach and a two track mind, as well as exploring human strengths continuously emerge in psychology as the four main ideas. Critical thinking refers to inspecting any ideas given and not automatically believing those concepts. The biopsychosocial approach discusses human conduct and the perspectives of its examination. Those perspectives include biologically, psychologically, and socially. Every human shares a similar biology, but differences arise psychologically and socially. The latter two views differ due to one’s experiences, social interactions, and the culture with which one identifies with. The two-track mind refers to the way the mind stores and sorts information. The human mind does this two ways, knowingly and unknowingly, hence the term “two-track mind”. Finally, exploring strengths

A day dream is defined as ‘a series of pleasant thoughts that distract one’s attention from the present’. In my opinion, a daydream is not a frivolous activity practiced only by a doe eyed schoolgirl during an unendurable French lesson. A daydream acts as a subconscious portal which allows one to escape from ones everyday life of stress and negative circumstances. One could almost say it is chewing gum for the mind. Of course, some differ in that view. A critically acclaimed author Ian McEwan said “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”  his opinion is that daydreaming is a self depressant and that it would only make the