Open AccessThe Mental Health Aspect of Mind Wandering
Author(s) -
Karthick Subramanian
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0501.010
Subject(s) - mind wandering , psychology , mental health , feeling , phenomenology (philosophy) , relation (database) , cognitive psychology , balance (ability) , metacognition , psychotherapist , cognition , social psychology , epistemology , psychiatry , computer science , philosophy , database , neuroscience
The mind rarely remains on one topic for a prolonged period without deviation. It’s a dynamic nature of the experience of the mind that everyone experiencing mind wandering, in which attention switches from a current task to unrelated thoughts and feelings. Studies had explored the phenomenology of mind wandering and highlighted the importance of its content and relation to metacognition in defining its purposeful effects. This study is about the mental health aspects of mind wandering which involve a complex balance of costs and benefits: Its association with various kinds of mental health-related explanation, therapeutic benefits and its applicability in mental health.