The antidote for mind-wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus.
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Concentration meditation involves focusing on a single point.
In this form of meditation, you simply refocus your awareness on the chosen object of attention each time you notice your mind wandering. Through this process, your ability to concentrate improves.
Take an object from your home and focus on its texture, touching it as if for the first time. Notice how the experience feels right now, as you interact with it.
You could also work with an inner feeling, directing awareness to a part of your body, noticing what sensations are present.
Meta-awareness is the simultaneous awareness of your focus in the present moment and of the limits of that focus.
It allows us to more fully understand where we sit within the situation. It is the firefighter’s consciousness of where his attention is directed in the momen...
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