India, Aug. 28 -- Your mind can move quickly from one thought to another. You may read a page without remembering much of it, forget why you entered a room or find yourself checking your phone while someone is talking to you.

Cleveland Clinic's guidance on cognition offers a simple way to think about these everyday experiences. Cognition includes mental processes such as attention, memory, learning, reasoning and decision-making.

Some of the techniques recommended by the health system focus on something that also appears in many mindfulness and spiritual practices.

Multitasking can make it harder to stay focused on what is happening in front of you.

Cleveland Clinic explains that attention plays an important role in memory. When you a...