Daydreaming Incubates Creative Discovery.

The Other Thing Is That If You Rely Solely On Medication To Manage Depression Or Anxiety, For Example, You Have Done Nothing To Train The Mind, So That When You Come Off The Medication, You Are Just As Vulnerable To A Relapse As Though You Had Never Taken The Medication.

Some Children Naturally Have More Cognitive Control Than Others, And In All Kids This Essential Skill Is Being Compromised By The Usual Suspects: Smartphones, Tv, Etc. But There Are Many Ways That Adults Can Help Kids Learn Better Cognitive Control.

There Is Perhaps No Psychological Skill More Fundamental Than Resisting Impulse. It Is The Root Of All Emotional Self-control, Since All Emotions, By Their Very Nature, Lead To One Or Another Impulse To Act. The Root Meaning Of The Word Emotion, Remember, Is "to Move.

The Emotional Brain Responds To An Event More Quickly Than The Thinking Brain.

If You Do A Practice And Train Your Attention To Hover In The Present, Then You Will Build The Internal Capacity To Do That As Needed - At Will And Voluntarily.