Just 10 minutes of daily meditation can help prevent your mind from wandering and is particularly effective if you tend to have repetitive anxious thoughts say researchers. The team from the University of Waterloo found that developing an awareness of the present moment reduced incidents of repetitive off-task thinking -- a hallmark of anxiety. Our results indicate that mindfulness training may have protective effects on mind wandering for anxious individuals said Mengran Xu researcher and PhD candidate at Waterloo. The team also found that meditation practice appears to help anxious people to shift their attention from their own internal worries
