Meditation for ADHD
Reduce reactivity, detach from distraction, and find focus
Explore strategies to overcome restlessness and distractibility
And find an inner sense of peace and wellbeing
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Reduce Restlessness and Reactivity
Your attitude and posture represent your baseline way of being - it’s your default. They're so ingrained that you mostly don’t even notice. The first module helps us shift our baseline to be more open and accepting, especially towards our inner experience, which dramatically reduces distress and reactivity. We go deeper in listening to the body. Feelings are our body's way of communicating with us; when we ignore them, our body has a tendency to start yelling, which makes us try to repress and ignore further - which just gets us caught in a painful feedback loop. This listening practice has been shown to greatly improve focus, even after doing it only once.
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Self-Compassion and Overcoming the Barriers
Chronic restlessness and distractibility often lead to feelings of inadequacy, feeling like we're "too much", or feeling "not good enough". We explore a practice for cultivating self-compassion and self-forgiveness, as well as as 2 practices for locating and overcoming common barriers to self-compassion.
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Creating Traction, Overcoming Distraction
We explore pragmatic and proven strategies to create more traction with the tasks we want to be doing, and overcome our distractible nature. Included is a short "power break", basically a rest and refocus practice implementing a few techniques based on scientific studies that can be utilized while doing a task to cultivate the relaxed focus and motivation necessary to perform at our best. Also included is a practice to improve the skill of recognizing and releasing distracting thoughts, focusing on the skills we can develop to not feed into distractions.
