Excellent! It is so nice to have control over our state of relaxation, eh? I always think about a lot of stuff too. But, I think the more one meditates, the more able one is to keep the focus during the meditation.
Read this page and do two things:
1. Highlight a sentence that makes you 'wonder'. Add an annotation to the Learning Strategies group as to why it makes you 'wonder'.
2. Read and respond to another student's annotation
I learn this way. I know that because when I was learning to fly an airplane, I used to visualize my body moving the controls even when I wasn't in the plane.
I never believed that they were innate. I always sort of figured you could learn them.
Now we understand that the skills of problem-solving,
analysis, synthesis, creativity, evaluation, and other higher order
thinking processes can be taught and learned, even by those considered
to be less able than their peers.