You might be absorbed in activities that engage your intellect today and this could make it easier for you to feel lost in thought. Your being engrossed in a world all your own may either be the result of a desire to learn more about or to escape what is going on around you. If you can, you might wish to reflect more consciously on the reasons behind your desire to become so completely absorbed in something today. Bringing a deeper level of awareness to the mental activities you engage in can not only help you gain the most out of your intellectual pursuits but it might also give you insight into your contemplative tendencies – such as whether or not your thoughts are constructive, positive and affirming. The more you come to understand how your activities affect you, the more conscientious you will be about how you go about undertaking them.

Becoming more fully attuned to what captivates us and how that manifests in our lives as a whole allows us to go about our learning process with a greater amount of mindfulness. The reasons why we decide to dive into something may vary and this in turn can affect the nature of our intellectual inquiry. Appreciating why we are doing something, however, lets us recognize our patterns and make the ways in which we become engaged with the world a more thoughtful and conscious experience. As you realize where your thoughts take you today you will be able to more fully savor the activities that fascinate you.