When you sample attention at the beginning of some period of time, let’s say eight weeks, and then you have people come back into lab eight weeks later, or even four weeks later, and what’s been happening in that period of time intervening is high demand and protracted demands, attention significantly gets worse. When it comes to mindfulness meditation, the intention and the way that mindfulness is described, is paying attention to our present moment experience, so being in the here and the now without editorializing or reacting to the present moment.