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What Your Wandering Thoughts Can Reveal About Mental Health

• New research investigates how idle time can spur rumination (a key symptom of depression) in some people.
• Thought pattern differences emerged between those with high and low tendencies to ruminate.
• When left alone for 10 minutes, people prone to ruminating had more thoughts that were negative, self-oriented, and focused on the past.
• Ruminators also had longer negative thoughts and shorter positive thoughts.
• Researching wandering thoughts can improve our understanding of mental health, informing treatments and coping methods.

The thoughts that arise when we’re left alone are an important part of our inner world. They help shape our experience of ourselves and the world around us.

Researchers still aren’t sure how thoughts arise and unfold over time despite the importance of wandering thoughts.

New research published by Scientific Reports in September 2021 sought to learn more by studying how the rumination process unfolds during distraction-free idle time for different people.

Analyses showed that just 10 minutes of idle time was enough to capture the brooding process and that some — but not all — people started ruminating in this time. Some key differences emerged between the thoughts that arose for high-ruminators and low-ruminators.

The findings emphasize the importance of taking healthy mental breaks, offering future implications for diagnosing and treating mental health conditions like depression.

Wandering thoughts during idle time

Some people find it easier to be alone with their thoughts than others. Rumination — the tendency to become fixated or stuck on particular, often negative, thoughts — is one challenge that can arise. This thinking style is linked with mental health conditions, including depression .

Researchers at the University of Arizona recorded and analyzed more than 2,000 thoughts from 78 undergraduate students. Each subject was instructed to voice their thoughts aloud for 10 minutes while seated alone in a room free of distractions.

“We were interested in exploring how brooding arises and unfolds during unprompted breaks,” said study co-author Jessica Andrews-Hanna , PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona, in an interview with Psych Central.

“Breaks are thought to be an important way to strengthen our memories, improve our attention , and reduce our stress .”

Participants who scored higher on a rumination questionnaire — labeled as having “high trait brooding” — expressed more negative, self-focused, and past-oriented thoughts during 10-minute sessions.

People with high trait brooding had more negative thoughts than positive ones, with negative thoughts becoming increasingly more narrow in topic over time. They also had longer negative thoughts and shorter positive thoughts.

Not everyone experiences brooding, however. Most participants in the study spent 10 minutes of idle time thinking about the present or the future in a neutral manner.

Some subjects even said their creativity flourished during the downtime and that a break from the busyness of the world felt healthy and productive.

“We gained real-time access to participants’ inner thoughts as they occurred and were able to look at the content and dynamics of those thoughts and their relation with particular outcomes,” lead author Quentin Raffaelli , a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona, told Psych Central.

The findings, according to the researchers, have implications for the decline in mental health during COVID-19. “We saw a steep rise in depression and anxiety [during lockdowns], paralleling a lot more idle time on our hands,” Andrews-Hanna said.

Why do people with depression ruminate?

People with depression are more likely to experience ruminative thinking in their downtime.

The negativity bias — our tendency to fixate more on negative versus neutral or positive stimuli — is also more common among people with depression.

“It’s not only what we think about that matters, but also the manner in which we think about it,” said Raffaelli. “Having negative thoughts is a normal aspect of life, but remaining stuck with those thoughts for extended periods of time is unhealthy.”

Research in the default mode network (DMN) shows that this region of the brain is active during rumination. The DMN seems to play a role in the process of turning our thoughts, attention, and emotion inward.

“We’re interested in understanding how the default mode network supports the different types of thoughts that emerge when people take breaks,” Andrews-Hanna said.

“We hope to be able to distinguish different brain network patterns that support healthy versus unhealthy forms of thinking, and ultimately target unhealthy thinking styles with therapies that work to rebalance the brain.”

The role of the present moment

Ruminative thinking is often linked to past-oriented thoughts, but that doesn’t mean happiness and contentment exist only in present-oriented thinking.

“One may feel a sense of being present while experiencing thoughts about a different timeline,” Raffaelli explained. “This relates to the notion of being mindful of the thoughts that arise, whatever they are.”

Mindfulness teaches us how to observe ourselves in the present moment without judgment, which can help diminish maladaptive thought patterns. Observing a thought about a past event while remaining grounded in the present is less likely to have a negative effect. Some people use meditation for depression symptoms .

“The more we can stay in the present moment, the more we can avoid rumination,” Melissa Shepard, MD, a board certified psychiatrist based in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Psych Central.

“When we focus on the past, we often focus on negative things that occurred or what we wish had been different,” Shepard said. “Feelings of regret and helplessness can make us feel like we have less control over what happens in the present, which can contribute to depression.”

Taking short breaks throughout the day to let your mind wander can be a positive or negative experience — depending on your mental well-being.

Those prone to ruminative thinking are more likely to get trapped in cycles of negative thoughts about themselves and their past, while others might find downtime to be creative and productive.

But taking a mental break to voice your thoughts can also be therapeutic, according to the new research.

“This was an exciting unanticipated aspect of our study, and it supports some exciting literature on the power of labeling one’s emotion and journaling,” said Andrews-Hanna. “Perhaps we could all afford to talk to ourselves more often.”

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Why do our minds wander.

Sometimes the mind wanders. Thoughts pop into consciousness. Ideas or images are present when just a moment before they were not. Scientists recently have been turning their attention to making sense of this.

One natural picture of the phenomenon goes something like this. Typically, our thoughts and feelings are shaped by what we are doing, by what there is around us. The world captures our attention and compels our minds this way or that. What explains the fact that you think of a red car when there is a red car in front of you is, well, the red car. And similarly, it is that loud noise that causes you to orient yourself to the commotion that is producing it. In such cases, we might say, the mind is coupled to the world around it and the world, in a way, plays us the way a person might play a piano.

But sometimes, even without going to sleep, we turn away from the world. We turn inward. We are contemplative or detached. We decouple ourselves from the environment and we are set free, as it were, to let our minds play themselves.

This natural picture has gained some support from the discovery of the so-called Default Mode Network. The DMN is a network of neural systems whose activation seems to be suppressed by active engagement with the world around us; DMN, in contrast, is activated (or rather, it tends to return to baseline levels of activity) precisely when we detach ourselves from what's going on around us. The DMN is the brain running in neutral.

One of the leading hypotheses to explain mind-wandering and the emergence of spontaneous thoughts is that this is the result of the operation of the brain's Default Mode Network. (See this for a review of this literature.)

A study published in April in the journal NeuroImage by Melissa Ellamil and her colleagues at the University of British Columbia, working in the laboratory of Kalina Christoff, provides evidence that challenges certain aspects of this DMN account. For one thing, she found, using fMRI, that there are neural systems (e.g., the posterior insula) activated just prior to the occurrence of spontaneous thoughts that are outside of the DMN. But she also noticed that some of the areas in DMN activated — for example the hypocampus — are associated with memory and attention. This is intriguing, as it puts pressure on the idea that mind-wandering is quite so passive, or as much a matter of withdrawing from the world, as some scientists have been inclined to support. Even spontaneous free thoughts arise out of memory and experience, it would seem. We are still very much engaged with the world, coupled to it, even when we are simply letting our minds wander.

But to my mind, the real interest — and the potential controversy — of Ellamil's work, has to do with a methodological innovation she undertook to enable her to investigate the neural signatures of the arising of spontaneous thought. It turns out that it isn't easy to find out when thoughts, feelings, images just pop into mind. Ordinary people, it is widely supposed, are not very good at monitoring their own free and undirected mental processes. So how can a scientist gather information about what's going on in the mind of a subject so as to be able to look further at what neural events and processes are, as they say, recruited by those happenings?

Ellamil's solution — and here she draws on what is called "neurophenomenology," which was first developed by the late Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela and his colleague, the philosopher Evan Thompson, who is also a co-author on the present study — is to use highly skilled practitioners of Vipassana mindfulness meditation as subjects. This particular style of meditation cultivates, or so it is claimed, precisely the ability notice the coming and going of thoughts and feelings. The idea, then, is that we can use what the meditators say to determine when thoughts arise, as well as what kinds of thoughts they are; on the basis of this data, we can try to figure out how the brain makes it all happen.

What makes these results tricky, it seems to me, is that we don't actually have any reason to believe that the Vipassana meditators do what they say — that is, reliably tell us what is going on in their minds.

The thought that a thought is arising is just another thought that arises. We can't get outside of thought, so to speak, to watch thought happen. At least not in the way that we can stand back and describe what is going on in front us.

Or can we? To do that, we would need to have some kind of access to what is going on in our internal landscape separately from our inclinations to say this or that, or think and feel this or that. But we have no such independent access.

Does the Vipassana meditator have a more reliable and more accurate awareness of his or her own experience? Are they therefore reliable instruments for letting us in on the contents of their own consciousness minds? Or are they just having their own, maybe distinct, maybe not so distinct, consciousness experiences? How would we decide?

This is an unresolved issue. The confidence of the meditators themselves does nothing to help us resolve it.

The point is not that there's anything wrong with mindfulness practices of this sort. I am quite prepared to think that Vipassana meditation is a beautiful and transformative practice, one entirely deserving of our interest and perhaps also our admiration.

But there is no reason to think that what such meditators do is better track independently existing real events in consciousness — and this is because we have no reason think that this picture of introspective self-awareness is even intelligible.

Alva Noë is a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes and teaches about perception, consciousness and art. He is the author of several books, including his latest, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015). You can keep up with more of what Alva is thinking on Facebook and on Twitter: @alvanoe

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How to Tame Your Wandering Mind

Learn to take steps to deal with distraction..

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Researchers believe that when a task isn’t sufficiently rewarding, our brains search for something more interesting to think about.

You have a big deadline looming, and it’s time to hunker down. But every time you start working, you find that, for some reason, your mind drifts off before you can get any real work done. What gives? What is this cruel trick our brains play on us, and what do we do about it?

Thankfully, by understanding why our mind wanders and taking steps to deal with distraction, we can stay on track. But first, let’s understand the root of the problem.

Why do our minds wander?

Unintentional mind-wandering occurs when our thoughts are not tied to the task at hand. Researchers believe our minds wander when the thing we’re supposed to be doing is not sufficiently rewarding, so our brains look for something more interesting to think about.

We’ve all experienced it from time to time, but it’s important to note that some people struggle with chronic mind-wandering : Though studies estimate ADHD afflicts less than 3% of the global adult population, it can be a serious problem and may require medical intervention.

For the vast majority of people, mind-wandering is something we can tame on our own—that is, if we know what to do about it. In fact, according to Professor Ethan Kross, director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan and author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It , mind-wandering is perfectly normal.

“We spend between a third to a half of our waking hours not focused on the present,” he told me in an email. “Some neuroscience research refers to our tendency to mind-wander as our ‘default state.’”

So why do we do it?

“Mind-wandering serves several valuable functions. It helps us simulate and plan for the future and learn from our past, and it facilitates creative problem-solving,” Kross explained. “Mind-wandering often gets a bad rep, but it’s a psychological process that evolved to provide us with a competitive advantage. Imagine not being able to plan for the future or learn from your past mistakes.”

Is mind-wandering bad for you?

“Like any psychological tool, however, mind-wandering can be harmful if used in the wrong context (i.e., when you’re trying to focus on a task) or inappropriately (i.e., when you worry or ruminate too much),” according to Kross. In other words, mind-wandering is a problem when it becomes a distraction. A distraction is any action that pulls you away from what you planned to do.

If, for instance, you intended to work on a big project, such as writing a blog post or finishing a proposal, but instead find yourself doing something else, you’re distracted.

The good news is that we can use mind-wandering to our advantage if we follow a few simple steps:

1. Make time to mind-wander

Mind-wandering isn’t always a distraction. If we plan for it, we can turn mind-wandering into traction. Unlike a distraction , which by definition is a bad thing, a diversion is simply a refocusing of attention and isn’t always harmful.

There’s nothing wrong with deciding to refocus your attention for a while. In fact, we often enjoy all kinds of diversions and pay for the privilege.

A movie or a good book, for instance, diverts our attention away from real life for a while so we can get into the story and escape reality for a bit.

Similarly, if you make time to allow your mind to drift and explore whatever it likes, that’s a healthy diversion, not a distraction.

The first step to mastering mind-wandering is to plan time for it. Use a schedule maker and block off time in your day to let your thoughts flow freely. You’ll likely find that a few minutes spent in contemplation can help you work through unresolved issues and lead to breakthroughs. Scheduling mind-wandering also lets you relax because you know you have time to think about whatever is on your mind instead of believing you need to act on every passing thought.

It’s helpful to know that time to think is on your calendar so you don’t have to interrupt your mind-wandering process or risk getting distracted later.

2. Catch the action

One of the difficulties surrounding mind-wandering is that by the time you notice you’re doing it, you’ve already done it. It’s an unconscious process so you can’t prevent it from happening.

The good news is that while you can’t stop your mind from wandering, you can control what you do when it happens.

Many people never learn that they are not their thoughts. They believe the voice in their head is somehow a special part of them, like their soul speaking out their inner desires and true self. When random thoughts cross their mind, they think those thoughts must be speaking some important truth.

Not true. That voice in your head is not your soul talking, nor do you have to believe everything you think.

When we assign undue importance to the chatter in our heads, we risk listening to half-baked ideas, feeling shame for intrusive thoughts, or acting impulsively against our best interests.

A much healthier way to view mind-wandering is as brain static. Just as the random radio frequencies you tune through don’t reveal the inner desires of your car’s soul, the thoughts you have while mind-wandering don’t mean much—unless, that is, you act upon them.

Though it can throw us off track, mind-wandering generally only lasts a few seconds, maybe minutes. However, when we let mind-wandering turn into other distractions, such as social-media scrolling, television-channel surfing, or news-headline checking, that’s when we risk wasting hours rather than mere minutes.

If you do find yourself mentally drifting off in the middle of a task, the important thing is to not allow that to become an unintended action, and therefore a distraction.

An intrusive thought is not your fault. It can’t be controlled. What matters is how you respond to it—hence the word respon-sibility.

Do you let the thought go and stay on task? Or do you allow yourself to escape what you’re doing by letting it lead you toward an action you’ll later regret?

3. Note and refocus

Can we keep the helpful aspects of mind-wandering while doing away with the bad? For the most part, yes, we can.

According to Kross, “Mind-wandering can easily shift into dysfunctional worry and rumination. When that happens, the options are to refocus on the present or to implement tools that help people mind-wander more effectively.”

One of the best ways to harness the power of mind-wandering while doing an important task is to quickly note the thought you don’t want to lose on a piece of paper. It’s a simple tactic anyone can use but few bother to do. Note that I didn’t recommend an app or sending yourself an email. Tech tools are full of external triggers that can tempt us to just check “one quick thing,” and before we know it, we’re distracted.

Rather, a pen and Post-it note or a notepad are the ideal tools to get ideas out of your head without the temptations that may lead you away from what you planned to do.

Then, you can collect your thoughts and check back on them later during the time you’ve planned in your day to chew on your ideas. If you give your thoughts a little time, you’ll often find that those super important ideas aren’t so important after all.

If you had acted on them at the moment, they would have wasted your time. But by writing them down and revisiting them when you’ve planned to do so, they have time to marinate and may become less relevant.

However, once in a while, an idea you collected will turn out to be a gem. With the time you planned to chew on the thought, you may discover that mind-wandering spurred you to a great insight you can explore later.

By following the three steps above, you’ll be able to master mind-wandering rather than letting it become your master.

Nir Eyal, who has lectured at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, is the author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

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