Welcome back to another episode of Radiohead Space.

I'm your host, Dora Kamau.

Alright, so the other day I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast, which if you don't

know, I am obsessed.

This particular episode covered how meditation works, and the host mentioned the study titled

A Wondering Mind is an Unhappy Mind.

In this study, two psychologists at Harvard found that a wandering mind comes at an emotional

cost.

In other words, thinking about things that are not present, that are not happening in the

moment, can decrease our sense of happiness.

After drawing inspiration from that podcast episode and study, I wanted to explore the

different ways that we can work with our minds.

And I know that sounds pretty broad, but it's also the essence of meditation.

Seeing our minds, their patterns, and tendencies clearly, and learning to work with them,

not against them.

Now, when I say work with our thoughts, what I mean is to explore, examine, and look at

our thoughts and our minds, instead of trying to push them away, or get rid of them.

If there's anything I want you to know, it's that mind wandering isn't a bad thing.

In fact, there's been tons of research to show that mind wandering is normal and natural.

We spend 47% of our waking lives lost in thought.

And this can be attributed to something called our default mode network.

It's a system in the brain that plays a role in conjuring those wandering thoughts

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