Meditation and the ADHD brain!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Quick video on ADHD and meditation. I talk about how meditation had helped me and how I used mediation to help me cope with my ADHD. Having ADHD is a 24/7 battle. I am constantly battling my brain to stay on task, remember appointments, and trying not to forget where I put important items, which gets exhausting. Meditation gives me a little break from this fight. Knowing that I will be battling with my brain all day long, I take some time to let my mind do what it does naturally.
Meditation is not about clearing your mind, but rather noticing that your mind has wondered and to bring it back to your focal point. The brain was built to think and have thoughts. It doesn't matter if a person has ADHD or not, the mind will wonder while meditating. I start the meditation session with my breathing as a focal point, but if my mind wonders off and I can't get it back to the focal point, I don't fight it.
Then way you describe ‘letting the brain out of the car’. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That whole "clear your mind" thing kept me off meditation too. Even the whole "acknowledge the thought and let it go" thing seems impossible. What's worked best for me is ASMR. OzleyASMR, RaphyTaphy, and Made in France ASMR are my go-to sources. Works for my daughters as well. My older kid goes to sleep MUCH faster with ASMR vs sitting in a quiet room letting her brain's inner dialog ramble on and on and on...
Funny enough- I actually have a similar analogy but a different take on it…
When I meditate, I picture myself on the side of a road or series of roads- each thought that I have is a car that passes by, I allow the traffic to flow freely. Like, there aren’t any lights or signs or anything, just, cars moving down a road/series of roads. Recently as I have worked to deepen my state of relaxation, I see myself like out in space with my thoughts just floating by/bouncing around or what have you. My key thing has always been that it’s okay to let my mind wander, it’s obviously totally gonna do that- but I don’t necessarily let it follow one trail for too long, if I can help it. I let that thought come, then it goes.
Its nowhere near a perfect system/visualization. But I’ve just found that to be what I gravitate towards.
Edit: minor grammar mistakes because I wrote this while it was late and I was tired 😂
Thank you
First: That boxing analogy is brilliant!
Second: What’s your other UA-cam channel? You’ve gotta have another channel because your video lighting and setup is too crispy awesome for a “newbie” UA-camr. :)
Yeah, I have a good analogy every once in awhile :)
Thank you so much for the compliment. Photography and videography is a small side hustle that started as one of my ADHD hobbies that actually stuck with me, so I know a thing or two about lighting.
@@stevewithadhd It took me 4 years to get my UA-cam studio and lighting to where I like it.
I created studios with background set ups in literally every single room of my house. Only to end up in a windowless basement bedroom painted black with zero background except 2 colored smartbulbs shining on a wall, one on my hair, and a giant 27” paper pendant ball lamp thingy for a key light.
4. Years. So very ADHD of me. Lol.
I can relate. I actually wanted to start a photography channel and I spent a lot of time, probably about 2 years, trying to figure out how to get the right background. My wife makes fun of me because I still rearrange my studio every few weeks. Very ADHD of me.
@@stevewithadhd I was always rearranging my studio and eventually realized that if I didn’t have anything to arrange, I would stop rearranging things. So I got rid of my desk and stuff in the background and now only have a mic visible.
Only thing I can change is the color of the background lights and hair light.
lol me too. Sitting a certain way. No movement
Thanks for the short intro, I find long intro's really frustrating, I often skip through them, I don't see the point in telling me what you are going to tell me, just tell me