The Mind Monkey phenomenon. I heard once at a budhist teaching, that the Mind was like a crazy monkey that was trapped in a 6 glass walled room. He would jump from wall to wall perceiving all that stimulates him. Meditation is the act of calming that monkey and controlling it impulses so that the monkey goes were you want it to go and not were its conditioned to go.
Everyone’s Mind Monkey is different, it jumps towards the things we have been conditioned to pay attention. All that needs attention is the monkey. Choose a topic, object, action and follow it constantly and you will see your monkey jump. Bring it back and it will see that one-pointedness brings calmness and power
