All meditation is not equal. While some styles of meditation improve mood, minimize self-talk, and promote inner exploration, focus meditation specifically helps reduce distractibility, promote mental stability, improve self-regulation, and enhance cognitive control.

Are you losing your mind to absentmindedness? Absentmindedness is mind wandering. It is common. When a person is involved in tasks that require low energy output, mind wandering re-orients the person from external tasks to internal tasks, like thinking about the past and planning for the future.