The brain is not designed to focus on more than one thing at a time, thats a fact. In learning to multi-task as we do, our attention to each task is by the very nature of multi-tasking diluted, it takes away from the experience that only being in the present moment can provide.
Then, as I am noting and coming to understand myself, when we get older the brain simply, organically finds it difficult to multi-task as the aging process unfolds and then it becomes a critical need to focus on one task at a time.
We have been heavily used to multitasking all our lives so it is not an easy habit to break, but break it we must. We must pay attention to what we are doing in the moment or run a high risk of falls and accidents, particularly when getting older.
Addendum
In another way I sense it’s also a form of disassociation, to multitask that is. We will do anything not to be in the present moment, our collective experience of life makes it to much to bear. It is where the peace and equanimity reside that all hearts yearn to be but being in the moment also brings us face to face with our internalized suffering and travail for healing, for a letting go before we can embrace that peace….grief.
Remember however that being in the present moment is all that there is, or ever was, or ever will be and where all Love resides, so practice present-moment awareness and be free……….I will be recording a meditation that I hope will assist in this endeavor over the next couple of days. Nigel Lott