Interesting. When my mind wanders, there's no negative self-talk; I'm thinking about working out or something else that I'm looking forward to doing. I'm daydreaming. The way your thoughts bounce around when staring out a window. However, if that is too much activity and creates too much "action" in the conscious mind, I'll try to focus on saying "Relax" and just get a rhythum going, but I find the daydreaming causes me to relax more which I thought was the goal of being in state.
Still learning. Thanks for all your imput alex.