Brief mindfulness meditation training reduces mind wandering: The critical role of acceptance.
Emotion November 7, 2016 Hayley Rahl, Emily K. Lindsay, Laura E. Pacilio et al. 171 citations
Mindfulness meditation programs, which train individuals to monitor their present-moment experience in an open or accepting way, have been shown to reduce mind wandering on standardized tasks in several studies. Here we test 2 competing accounts for how mindfulness training reduces mind wandering, evaluating whether the attention-monitoring component of mindfulness training alone reduces mind...