She references a few studies that equate mind wandering with negative feelings and depression.

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Was my mind wandering that day, thinking about an upcoming exam or how much homework I had to do that evening?

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Another tactic: Build time for mind wandering into daily routines, breaking away from tasks requiring concentration to take a walk or run, look out a window or do some relaxing, routine physical task.

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My body became fitter, my mind stopped wandering off in anxiety and I became at peace with myself.

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How many presentations have you sat through where your mind started wandering a few minutes into the talk and never really came back?

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Mind-wandering, often seen as daydreaming, allows the brain to incubate new approaches to familiar problems, serving "as a foundation for creative inspiration, " says the 2012 study in Psychological Science.

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My mind was wandering, thinking about Lyle.

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The millennial mind is a wandering one which relies on taking time off from work and going on regular vacations.

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My mind was always wandering off.

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Sabbaticals are instead about unstructured time wandering and exploring without specific goals in mind.

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