If you struggle with restlessness or ADHD, the course is here! Watch the first module for free: beingintegrated.thinkific.com/courses/meditation-for-adhd
Saying “thank you” helps so much. After all, anxiety is really just trying to protect you, to keep you safe. It makes so much sense to just appreciate it, after my whole life I’ve hated it. Thank you so much
I’m awed by how well this meditation worked for me. I am undiagnosed- but suspect I have inattentive ADHD, and WOW was this on target for me. Thank you!🙏 I will be purchasing your course!
I've always had quite intense ADHD symptoms, but paired with anxiety I didnt piece it together. My parents did what they could to feed my restlessness. Put me in all the sports, all the extra curriculars, fueled all my hobbies. And for the most part it worked. Till I left home and went to Uni and my whole mental foundation crumbled. But then I found sports again and even though I still feel free doing them, 1 hour after and I'd feel empty again. Then the pandemic hit and I couldn't use sport to placate my symptoms anymore. Then they became loud and scary and after a whole year of acceptance, I'm finally doing the work to face this thing. At 23 loll In short, glad I found this channel. Wish it was earlier.
I have been into mindfulness for almost two years, but your energy, vibe and way of guiding are very amazing. ANd I feel like I learned new stuff, thank you :)
“I see you, I hear you you, I am here with you” just repeating this to myself made me feel so much better. I was teary by the end of it, just overwhelmed by somehow sitting with what i was going through. I have ADHD and the feeling of being stuck has been very difficult to deal with. Will definitely give your course a shot. This was very helpful. Thank you so much! The fact that you acknowledge how some times one might not be ready to face what one is feeling or go too deep into it, is something that I have experienced in therapy as well. Thank you, hope you are enabled to continue the good work. 🙏
I broke down into tears in saying thank you part. For all my life I've tried to run away from this feeling, and blaming it for the outcomes. Actually thanking it was so difficult. But this changed my whole perspective, thank you so much!!!
Hello, (To the creator of this video)I Doubt that you will read this comment since this credit video is a year old now but regardless, I want everyone that reads this comment to make sure they watch this video and share it with all their friends because I truly believe by watching these videos, u will uncover the key to life... Can't even begin to tell you so thankful I am that I have found this channel. I can relate to literally Every thing he is talking about in this and other videos. it's like hes been inside my head and explaining how it is to go thru life as me. I've had a hard time explaining ,even to myself, what has been going on as long as I can remember within me .It's the thing that affects me in every single area ,every single moment of my day.. Like he said all the therapy and meditation retreats that he went to, how he felt like they didn't really work to permanently change anything, just helped make it less intolerable for a couple minutes. Butwhat am i supposed to do, literally sit in calming meditations 24/7 and not do anything else? I ve always i was just broken or something because I couldn't do normal things without completely losing my mind and these meditations and affirmations and all the things were not having the same effect on me as they seemed to be having on everyone else.. I've realized just recently that the reason that I have abused drugs daily since the age of 13. I'm now and thought my drug abuse was the reason why I struggled in life and couldn't really move forward. but I now realize the drugs and stuff weren't my problem but only the solution to my problem.. They are pretty much the only thing that helps me escape the unbearable feeling that's always there. It's pure hell. What adds to the stress is that nobody else seems to understand ,so they just assume I'm weak or I'm lazy or that i just make up excuses to get out of having to do things . Anyways sry for the rant. One thing that I will never get used to is the fact that something like what I just typed out takes so much time to type out on a phone when I could just speak the sentences and it would be out in seconds.. If there wasn't speech to text I would literally never write things like this that were so long lol my ADHD would be causing me to keep getting distracted every 3rd word , without speech to text It would just completely be impossible for me.
Hey thanks for this message. I know we also chatted via email. I really appreciate what you said and it’s incredibly heartbreaking to witness all the under resourced people out there, just doing their best to survive. So honoured that my channel can help in some way and really hope things come together for you.
I feel so much of what you said, including the part about all of the time it takes to type these types of things out! I would write so much more to so many people if it wouldn’t take up half my day and derail my life. Lol Thank you for taking the time. I hope you are doing well.
@@scurvyelephant333 lol just re reading my comment I now realize I missed a bunch of words. But oh well. Glad u under stood. I am doing ok,depending on day I guess lol, how about u?
Opioid withdrawals would cause me to uncontrollably shake or just have muscle spasms. But ever since I had withdrawals in the hospital with no way out. It changed me , I’ve beeen able to sit still and feel the restlessness and be okay with. Now my problem is that I can sit and not do anything for as long as I can. I have little motivation to get up. I space out and feel like I can’t just stand up
Noticed your comment was fairly recent so I thought I would reply and see how you are doing. That’s incredible how you got through the withdrawal. I’m wondering if you’re finding anything that helps with feeling unable to move? I know our experience is not the same but I relate to feeling unable to move. And it can be debilitating.
@@scurvyelephant333 I appreciate your kindness💚🙏 I found that if I could think of at least 1 important goal to accomplish , then write the goal in a variety of ways along with the reason why & how i’ll take positive steps to improve my actions, I also wrote i was going to do the task to the best of my ability. Those are small things that have the possibility to create the intrinsic motivation which allows us to find the will to stand up and start. Anyway I am sending you the best of luck & love and hugs 😇😌 i only recently started this morning journaling thing so if I happen to find another thing that works for me I’ll update you
Wow how did I come across you? Everything you have said resonates with me ! That thank you, just helped me to accept such a huge part of myself. I just got it. Wow. Thank you what a beautiful soul you are. Xxxx hugs to you x
i can truly relate with everything you touched on. all my life i have felt uncomfortable in my own skin. just like there was something wrong within. and for the past year or two i have really looked into why i feel this way. i have learned so much and practiced many different techniques. i have ADHD the worst it can get with all the symptoms you may know of. and over this time of acknowledgment i have learned there is a sort of baggage i have carried around. my subconscious is i believe to afraid to “let go” of. i now know i can not fight these chains but accept them, have the courage to allow these feelings with love and understanding. i am blessed to have found your channel and am so very excited to explore this feeling with you.
This was really great, have been using some of your techniques and fidning some relief. Also its helped me realise i have a lot of resentment and resistence to the feelings so that is something im trying to work on niw. Thank you
Thanks. You sound like Scott Killoby., but more thorough. I am ADD for sure with all the school and personal tauma. Gona try this tonight. Thanks to the work I've done in the past 5 years this was pretty easy to do. The fact that there was a tangle of emotions felt, there must be work to do.
Thanks for this🙏💚..I found that hearing a voice saying I see you and am with you was very comforting, and allowed me to feel safe and relax a little. I got a bit muddled about what/who to thank, that aspect didn't seem present but might shake out as I practice more.
Hi, You hit exactly the spot within me there is a numb spot that my whole body contracts around. Now I do this exercise for a year now, but there is nothing changing. If I compasionately focus on that feeling it slowly can melt, vibrate, move, however I reach a plateau, where it just keeps stuck and doesnt do anything further. My mind is silent, my body is calmer, however the inside stays like 30% locked and I cant do anything. Any idea? I believe you are a person that described the BEST how I feel. Noone ever described it so good.
Hey Jakub thanks for your comment. I will have new practices coming out soon to address this. But for now I’d suggest to check out IFS meditations because I think they may be very helpful. I’ll be doing a series like this soon but here’s a link to a resource to further explore IFS meditations: integralguide.com/50+Permanent+Notes/%F0%9F%9B%A0+Toolkit/%F0%9F%9B%A0+IFS+Toolkit
@@BeingIntegrated Thanks but also did IFS meditations for a year, I never get an "answer" or anything, just physical sensation of numbness. I literally feel I tried everything and no therapist can help with this, yet you seem to have described the feeling, except it doesnt "talk". Sometimes it changes to anxiety, sometimes to tremors, sometimes it goes away a bit, but I have literally no idea what it wants and when does it pop up, what is its function... Its been 3 years doing difficult work with no results so its frustrating. Hope your new material will bring some light. I even tried intense psychedelic trips and all I get is the physical feeling... no connection whatsoever.
@@BeingIntegrated I also have extra question - how did you get over this feeling? Was it a breakthrough? Or a daily somatic practice? What was the key?
@@TheJulinko oh wow Jakub yes I relate so hard. I don’t know if we are the exact same, but I will say what helped me a lot. First doing somatic practices, basically befriending the body. If you send me an email I can send you some practices (again they are coming out in a few weeks but I can send you ones by Peter Levine). The other thing that really helped was making the right decisions in life and taking on the responsibility that I needed to. For me that was going back to school and becoming a therapist, and then it was putting myself out there by making videos. I don’t know the answer for you but I do think the upcoming material may help or at least offer some perspective. But like I mention in the overview video, the real change happens when your lifestyle changes, when you get aligned with your values and live a meaningful life. Also keep at it. It’s very common to go through a few years of difficult transition. It may not feel like a helpful time but often deeper change is happening. I’d highly recommend checking out the book The Journey of Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin. It was helpful to me to read his work and understand what it meant to live your authentic life.
@@BeingIntegrated Oh my god, I am literally struggling right now with the decision whether go to school and go to therapy.... I firmly believe its my wrong life path that my body is rejecting while people tell me otherwise. Thank you so much for this message, you might have been the last drop to push me over to the other side, I am quitting this f.... corporate job in one week :D Thanks!!!
thank you for taking your time to help others ❤️ I love myself more after this practice. it was a big surprise to hear you live in Costa Rica! where? are you a therapist here or just on vacation?
Hi Jude! Thank you so much for sharing your work and insights here, I have learnt so many valuable things from you! I am finding this approach helpful with anxiety. I am wondering if you use this same approach with overexcitement. I will try to describe what it is like for me. It is a feeling of hyperactivity, wanting to go-go-go, in a quite happy and excited way, maybe almost like mania? Feeling like a 5-year-old who can’t wait for their birthday and can stay awake all night in anticipation. I feel high and happy on the feeling, but I know that if I keep feeding it by doing things I cannot be grounded, present, feel my bodys needs and to go to sleep at night, and I even forget to breathe and burn out severely. Sometimes the right things is of course to be physically active and I try to follow a good routine etc. But I want to learn more how to BE with and ACCEPT the feeling without acting on it. And the feeling is uncomfortable when trying to sleep or meditating, because I want some peace, while I also kind of want the feeling to stay because I feel fun and keep thinking about fun things, so the feelings stays until I feel physically anxious, which makes me aware of my body, and then I am motivated to meditate, and it is a stuck pattern. Would you use the same practice or another approach? Will your meditation program cover this or do you know of a program that does? I found your video on the trap of progress in meditation really good to, after a year of meditation I had a breakthrough and I started feeling more peaceful, and then I got super excited about it, wanting to share this exciting news with everyone, and suddenly that baseline peace was gone and turned into overarousal in the nervous system again and I felt really down about it. Sorry this comment is long, it is hard to describe feelings sometimes. I would of course be happy to book a consultation with you or someone you recommend if that is more appropriate! Thank you soo much!
@@BeingIntegrated Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and to give advice. It is very helpful for me to know that other people have had/have similar struggles (and I love Jeff Warren and have learnt a lot from him too!), this makes me feel less lonely, because I don’t know anyone in real life who can relate to how excitement could be a struggle. I tried searching youtube for “coping with overexcitement” and only found puppy training videos on the topic, haha, so some ideas for humans are much appreciated. Your approach resonates with me, and I tried doing a meditation with open awareness when excited and it did make me feel more restful about the excitement, which felt huge to me. Thank you so much! I will keep exploring what works for me. Thank you for all you do, sending you gratitude from my heart. You are improving the lives of many people.
Hi. I'm looking for help and encouragement. I listened to your ADD meditation and really liked it. Seriously envious that you're in Costa Rica, I want to be traveling and feeling stuck in my emotions of fear, anger and sadness. That I have been trying to heal my whole life it seems. I want and need support. I need people I've been going to on-line 12 step groups and it is helpful. I need in person..ppl! Coming out of homelessness and trying to heal. I am 55 and seriously never thought my life would be so tumultuous. Looking at my life path yesterday, the chaos. Always wanting to be free from pain, hurt, injustices, bad relationships, childhood crap. I'm outside Seattle in Washington State. I'm looking for support do you have any suggestions? I have Medicaid insurance. Thank you, Diane
Hi Diane, I’m sorry to hear about what a difficult time you’re having. I’m Canadian so unfortunately I’m not familiar with the American systems and can’t be of much help there. I would definitely recommend 12 step groups though, they can be so helpful, I know many people who have been helped though those groups and maybe try to attend some in person if possible. I have a lot of content of my channel that may be of help, but of course there’s no substitute to connecting with real people. I really wish you much healing and wellbeing on your journey.
I’ve been struggling extremely hard with dissociation and getting myself organized and productive. I’m 22, and was diagnosed just over a year ago. If you have any sort of consultation line, or some place I can talk to someone with my own questions I’d be incredibly thankful. I need some help from someone that understands this and can answer my questions and misunderstandings and misinterpretations of myself. Every day I realize certain behaviors or feelings I’d have growing up and do have and how they’re all associated with my adhd
Aloha. I'm gonna be completely transparent 💖 who makes these labels? Why is it someone has this or that? And why not being a certain way, has to be a label of shame. So what it is that someone who isn't easily distracted called? Boring? Why take on labels from a society who obviously has not gotten anything right and is still in the dark ages. Why not look at someone who is not "normal," as someone to embrace? Having something to give and say? No. Instead we put labels to make them feel as if there is something wrong with them. What bs. I always knew from early age these labels were a shadows way of not looking within the projector because of their own fears. And so they make a label on someone else to feel ok because they lack the skills to bridge the gap to under and embrace another. F$#k the labels. Who are these non existent people who make them and why do we follow them? No one questions the sanity of these labels and where they come from. Just, I'm different, I must have a label that there's something wrong with me. I'm sorry. I don't need to be labeled so someone else can feel ok. I don't have this ADHD. But I have had other labels. All of them bs. We have forgotten our core Higher Self. Asleep. And allow the sheep who think they are lions to feed us their bs. Without questioning it. Who really has the issue? The ones who need to label and separate and perpetuate the guilt and shame. It's subconscious sabotage.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but there's another side. I always knew I had ADHD, but when I actually started reading about it, it changed my life. I realized so many things I felt shameful about were just common aspects of ADHD (disorganization, mismanaging time, difficulty sleeping...). For me, realizing all these things were aspects of my ADHD was empowering. I've worked with a lot of clients that had a lot of shame around certain behaviours (forgetting things, always being late, being disorganized, etc). When I helped them understand they had ADHD, it was a huge relief for them. They weren't uniquely messed up, they weren't lazy, they just have ADHD, like millions of others. So there's the negative side of labels that pathologize people, make them feel like something is wrong with them. Then there's the positive side, that allows people to see they are just different, and there's a huge group of people out there just like them. Now of course I don't like the terms and the history of the pathology, but there's a massive positive movement in the ADHD world too. The thing is a lot of people truly struggle with their ADHD, and would resent anyone telling them they are ok the way they are. They are not ok, they are struggling and suffering on a daily basis. But there are others, like me, who have managed in life. Who don't see the label ADHD as a limitation, but instead see both the strengths and weaknesses of it. I hear what you're saying, and I don't like when anyone is looked down on for having ADHD. But I wear it proudly, knowing it doesn't define me.
Great... always need to "find my own way" that never exist... I dont habe any intuition. I hate to keep "looking and exploring" just to find out it don't work like EVERYTHING else. I don't know absolutely nothing about myself.
Not knowing anything is the best starting point and mindset for exploration. Thinking you know who you are is the most restrictive thing to discovering more about yourself :)
Maybe try one of the newer ones I posted that has music. The music can help. Try “Practicing Mindfulness: Welcoming our Experience” and let me know if that works for you
@@thugdaddy007 Oh I just realized I didn't actually set time stamps for this, it just made automatic chapters. I fixed that and set proper time stamps. Hope that helps.
If you struggle with restlessness or ADHD, the course is here! Watch the first module for free:
beingintegrated.thinkific.com/courses/meditation-for-adhd
9:24 practice start
thank you 💗💗💗
I cried. It felt like I was slowly unraveling a stringy mess. The stringy mess is still there but its less messy. This was really nice :)
Saying “thank you” helps so much. After all, anxiety is really just trying to protect you, to keep you safe. It makes so much sense to just appreciate it, after my whole life I’ve hated it. Thank you so much
I’m awed by how well this meditation worked for me. I am undiagnosed- but suspect I have inattentive ADHD, and WOW was this on target for me. Thank you!🙏 I will be purchasing your course!
I've always had quite intense ADHD symptoms, but paired with anxiety I didnt piece it together. My parents did what they could to feed my restlessness. Put me in all the sports, all the extra curriculars, fueled all my hobbies. And for the most part it worked.
Till I left home and went to Uni and my whole mental foundation crumbled. But then I found sports again and even though I still feel free doing them, 1 hour after and I'd feel empty again.
Then the pandemic hit and I couldn't use sport to placate my symptoms anymore. Then they became loud and scary and after a whole year of acceptance, I'm finally doing the work to face this thing. At 23 loll
In short, glad I found this channel. Wish it was earlier.
try 71....lol....good for you!
Lucky lol I'm only figuring this out at 37
Any childhood trauma? Any medication?
I appreciated the meditation. Recognizing its a stiffness I was talking to which I never did before. Thank you.
I found this so helpful! My body changed from high vibration/ irritability to soft pulsing and peace.
I felt this also
Just wow. This was like a smack upside my head. I’m just numb to everything in life. I needed this. Thank you.
Happy to see you back mate.
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It was beautiful, thank you
Peace with ourselves is most important thing, I should do these practice more
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I have been into mindfulness for almost two years, but your energy, vibe and way of guiding are very amazing. ANd I feel like I learned new stuff, thank you :)
Your comment means so much to me. Really. This is what keeps me going more than anything :)
“I see you, I hear you you, I am here with you” just repeating this to myself made me feel so much better. I was teary by the end of it, just overwhelmed by somehow sitting with what i was going through. I have ADHD and the feeling of being stuck has been very difficult to deal with. Will definitely give your course a shot. This was very helpful. Thank you so much! The fact that you acknowledge how some times one might not be ready to face what one is feeling or go too deep into it, is something that I have experienced in therapy as well. Thank you, hope you are enabled to continue the good work. 🙏
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Do you offer one on one session anymore
I broke down into tears in saying thank you part. For all my life I've tried to run away from this feeling, and blaming it for the outcomes. Actually thanking it was so difficult. But this changed my whole perspective, thank you so much!!!
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This is a beautiful work. Thankyou. I feel much better after this video
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Hello,
(To the creator of this video)I Doubt that you will read this comment since this credit video is a year old now but regardless, I want everyone that reads this comment to make sure they watch this video and share it with all their friends because I truly believe by watching these videos, u will uncover the key to life... Can't even begin to tell you so thankful I am that I have found this channel. I can relate to literally Every thing he is talking about in this and other videos. it's like hes been inside my head and explaining how it is to go thru life as me. I've had a hard time explaining ,even to myself, what has been going on as long as I can remember within me .It's the thing that affects me in every single area ,every single moment of my day.. Like he said all the therapy and meditation retreats that he went to, how he felt like they didn't really work to permanently change anything, just helped make it less intolerable for a couple minutes. Butwhat am i supposed to do, literally sit in calming meditations 24/7 and not do anything else? I ve always i was just broken or something because I couldn't do normal things without completely losing my mind and these meditations and affirmations and all the things were not having the same effect on me as they seemed to be having on everyone else.. I've realized just recently that the reason that I have abused drugs daily since the age of 13. I'm now and thought my drug abuse was the reason why I struggled in life and couldn't really move forward. but I now realize the drugs and stuff weren't my problem but only the solution to my problem.. They are pretty much the only thing that helps me escape the unbearable feeling that's always there. It's pure hell. What adds to the stress is that nobody else seems to understand ,so they just assume I'm weak or I'm lazy or that i just make up excuses to get out of having to do things . Anyways sry for the rant. One thing that I will never get used to is the fact that something like what I just typed out takes so much time to type out on a phone when I could just speak the sentences and it would be out in seconds.. If there wasn't speech to text I would literally never write things like this that were so long lol my ADHD would be causing me to keep getting distracted every 3rd word , without speech to text It would just completely be impossible for me.
Hey thanks for this message. I know we also chatted via email. I really appreciate what you said and it’s incredibly heartbreaking to witness all the under resourced people out there, just doing their best to survive. So honoured that my channel can help in some way and really hope things come together for you.
I feel so much of what you said, including the part about all of the time it takes to type these types of things out! I would write so much more to so many people if it wouldn’t take up half my day and derail my life. Lol
Thank you for taking the time. I hope you are doing well.
@@scurvyelephant333 lol just re reading my comment I now realize I missed a bunch of words. But oh well. Glad u under stood. I am doing ok,depending on day I guess lol, how about u?
Happy to see you back too and thank you for this. Enjoy your new changes.
Thank you for sharing these thoughts of helpfulness
Opioid withdrawals would cause me to uncontrollably shake or just have muscle spasms. But ever since I had withdrawals in the hospital with no way out. It changed me , I’ve beeen able to sit still and feel the restlessness and be okay with. Now my problem is that I can sit and not do anything for as long as I can. I have little motivation to get up. I space out and feel like I can’t just stand up
Noticed your comment was fairly recent so I thought I would reply and see how you are doing. That’s incredible how you got through the withdrawal. I’m wondering if you’re finding anything that helps with feeling unable to move?
I know our experience is not the same but I relate to feeling unable to move. And it can be debilitating.
@@scurvyelephant333 I appreciate your kindness💚🙏 I found that if I could think of at least 1 important goal to accomplish , then write the goal in a variety of ways along with the reason why & how i’ll take positive steps to improve my actions, I also wrote i was going to do the task to the best of my ability. Those are small things that have the possibility to create the intrinsic motivation which allows us to find the will to stand up and start.
Anyway I am sending you the best of luck & love and hugs 😇😌 i only recently started this morning journaling thing so if I happen to find another thing that works for me I’ll update you
@@scurvyelephant333 have a divin Sunday miss !❤️ start your week off with a good day and the following days will follow suit .☝️💯
the only time I really felt it been meditaion for three years THANK YOU
Amazing :)
felt so difficult, I had to switch positions, reposition my body and I felt so much tension, the unrest really became visible and "heavy"
Wow how did I come across you? Everything you have said resonates with me ! That thank you, just helped me to accept such a huge part of myself. I just got it. Wow. Thank you what a beautiful soul you are. Xxxx hugs to you x
i can truly relate with everything you touched on. all my life i have felt uncomfortable in my own skin. just like there was something wrong within. and for the past year or two i have really looked into why i feel this way. i have learned so much and practiced many different techniques.
i have ADHD the worst it can get with all the symptoms you may know of. and over this time of acknowledgment i have learned there is a sort of baggage i have carried around. my subconscious is i believe to afraid to “let go” of.
i now know i can not fight these chains but accept them, have the courage to allow these feelings with love and understanding.
i am blessed to have found your channel and am so very excited to explore this feeling with you.
I noticed huge difference Thank YOU!
Awesome so great to hear :)
This was really great, have been using some of your techniques and fidning some relief. Also its helped me realise i have a lot of resentment and resistence to the feelings so that is something im trying to work on niw. Thank you
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You said Letting go of intentions as I ran into emotions and intentions.
❤ I really really appreciate this video. You put me in such a calm mood. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Great to hear. Lots of new content on the way. Hope you enjoy :)
That was a beautiful meditation. Thank you.
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It really calmed me, Thank you.
Big thanks for this video! Depression is terrible but we can crush it!
Thanks. You sound like Scott Killoby., but more thorough. I am ADD for sure with all the school and personal tauma. Gona try this tonight. Thanks to the work I've done in the past 5 years this was pretty easy to do. The fact that there was a tangle of emotions felt, there must be work to do.
I love your knowledge and wisdom. Please keep going with your channel.
Wonderful, thank you
Thanks for sharing your experiences and videos with us. If it helped me, it sure will help others. Keep it up!
such a great teacher. much love and thanks.
Thankyou.
Thanks for this🙏💚..I found that hearing a voice saying I see you and am with you was very comforting, and allowed me to feel safe and relax a little. I got a bit muddled about what/who to thank, that aspect didn't seem present but might shake out as I practice more.
Thanks..good luck with your new project💚🙏
So grateful for this! Thank you!
Hi, You hit exactly the spot within me there is a numb spot that my whole body contracts around. Now I do this exercise for a year now, but there is nothing changing. If I compasionately focus on that feeling it slowly can melt, vibrate, move, however I reach a plateau, where it just keeps stuck and doesnt do anything further. My mind is silent, my body is calmer, however the inside stays like 30% locked and I cant do anything. Any idea?
I believe you are a person that described the BEST how I feel. Noone ever described it so good.
Hey Jakub thanks for your comment. I will have new practices coming out soon to address this. But for now I’d suggest to check out IFS meditations because I think they may be very helpful. I’ll be doing a series like this soon but here’s a link to a resource to further explore IFS meditations:
integralguide.com/50+Permanent+Notes/%F0%9F%9B%A0+Toolkit/%F0%9F%9B%A0+IFS+Toolkit
@@BeingIntegrated Thanks but also did IFS meditations for a year, I never get an "answer" or anything, just physical sensation of numbness. I literally feel I tried everything and no therapist can help with this, yet you seem to have described the feeling, except it doesnt "talk". Sometimes it changes to anxiety, sometimes to tremors, sometimes it goes away a bit, but I have literally no idea what it wants and when does it pop up, what is its function... Its been 3 years doing difficult work with no results so its frustrating. Hope your new material will bring some light. I even tried intense psychedelic trips and all I get is the physical feeling... no connection whatsoever.
@@BeingIntegrated I also have extra question - how did you get over this feeling? Was it a breakthrough? Or a daily somatic practice? What was the key?
@@TheJulinko oh wow Jakub yes I relate so hard. I don’t know if we are the exact same, but I will say what helped me a lot. First doing somatic practices, basically befriending the body. If you send me an email I can send you some practices (again they are coming out in a few weeks but I can send you ones by Peter Levine). The other thing that really helped was making the right decisions in life and taking on the responsibility that I needed to. For me that was going back to school and becoming a therapist, and then it was putting myself out there by making videos.
I don’t know the answer for you but I do think the upcoming material may help or at least offer some perspective. But like I mention in the overview video, the real change happens when your lifestyle changes, when you get aligned with your values and live a meaningful life.
Also keep at it. It’s very common to go through a few years of difficult transition. It may not feel like a helpful time but often deeper change is happening. I’d highly recommend checking out the book The Journey of Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin. It was helpful to me to read his work and understand what it meant to live your authentic life.
@@BeingIntegrated Oh my god, I am literally struggling right now with the decision whether go to school and go to therapy.... I firmly believe its my wrong life path that my body is rejecting while people tell me otherwise. Thank you so much for this message, you might have been the last drop to push me over to the other side, I am quitting this f.... corporate job in one week :D Thanks!!!
thank you for taking your time to help others ❤️ I love myself more after this practice. it was a big surprise to hear you live in Costa Rica! where? are you a therapist here or just on vacation?
Loved it. Thank you very much!
Thank you 😊
Hi Jude!
Thank you so much for sharing your work and insights here, I have learnt so many valuable things from you!
I am finding this approach helpful with anxiety. I am wondering if you use this same approach with overexcitement. I will try to describe what it is like for me. It is a feeling of hyperactivity, wanting to go-go-go, in a quite happy and excited way, maybe almost like mania? Feeling like a 5-year-old who can’t wait for their birthday and can stay awake all night in anticipation. I feel high and happy on the feeling, but I know that if I keep feeding it by doing things I cannot be grounded, present, feel my bodys needs and to go to sleep at night, and I even forget to breathe and burn out severely. Sometimes the right things is of course to be physically active and I try to follow a good routine etc. But I want to learn more how to BE with and ACCEPT the feeling without acting on it. And the feeling is uncomfortable when trying to sleep or meditating, because I want some peace, while I also kind of want the feeling to stay because I feel fun and keep thinking about fun things, so the feelings stays until I feel physically anxious, which makes me aware of my body, and then I am motivated to meditate, and it is a stuck pattern. Would you use the same practice or another approach? Will your meditation program cover this or do you know of a program that does?
I found your video on the trap of progress in meditation really good to, after a year of meditation I had a breakthrough and I started feeling more peaceful, and then I got super excited about it, wanting to share this exciting news with everyone, and suddenly that baseline peace was gone and turned into overarousal in the nervous system again and I felt really down about it. Sorry this comment is long, it is hard to describe feelings sometimes. I would of course be happy to book a consultation with you or someone you recommend if that is more appropriate! Thank you soo much!
@@BeingIntegrated Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and to give advice. It is very helpful for me to know that other people have had/have similar struggles (and I love Jeff Warren and have learnt a lot from him too!), this makes me feel less lonely, because I don’t know anyone in real life who can relate to how excitement could be a struggle. I tried searching youtube for “coping with overexcitement” and only found puppy training videos on the topic, haha, so some ideas for humans are much appreciated.
Your approach resonates with me, and I tried doing a meditation with open awareness when excited and it did make me feel more restful about the excitement, which felt huge to me. Thank you so much! I will keep exploring what works for me. Thank you for all you do, sending you gratitude from my heart. You are improving the lives of many people.
I completely can relate to every single thing you said. Sounds like a male version of myself.freaky lol
🙏 Namaste from Germany. Enjoy your vacay.
Very cool, thanks for this!
Hi. I'm looking for help and encouragement. I listened to your ADD meditation and really liked it. Seriously envious that you're in Costa Rica, I want to be traveling and feeling stuck in my emotions of fear, anger and sadness. That I have been trying to heal my whole life it seems. I want and need support. I need people I've been going to on-line 12 step groups and it is helpful. I need in person..ppl! Coming out of homelessness and trying to heal. I am 55 and seriously never thought my life would be so tumultuous. Looking at my life path yesterday, the chaos. Always wanting to be free from pain, hurt, injustices, bad relationships, childhood crap. I'm outside Seattle in Washington State. I'm looking for support do you have any suggestions? I have Medicaid insurance. Thank you, Diane
Hi Diane, I’m sorry to hear about what a difficult time you’re having. I’m Canadian so unfortunately I’m not familiar with the American systems and can’t be of much help there. I would definitely recommend 12 step groups though, they can be so helpful, I know many people who have been helped though those groups and maybe try to attend some in person if possible. I have a lot of content of my channel that may be of help, but of course there’s no substitute to connecting with real people. I really wish you much healing and wellbeing on your journey.
Are you adding a crickets or wind sound to your videos? It sounds like you’re outdoors.
Lol I lived in Costa Rica nearly 2 years, this was filmed in a place that only had screen windows and was surrounded by jungle.
i love you
I wanna go back to Monteverde and never leave.
So beautiful there! :)
Are there any modifications to any of your meditations for children?
No but my buddy Jeff made some amazing kids meditations:
www.kidevolve.com/creative-mind-journeys/
I’ve been struggling extremely hard with dissociation and getting myself organized and productive. I’m 22, and was diagnosed just over a year ago. If you have any sort of consultation line, or some place I can talk to someone with my own questions I’d be incredibly thankful. I need some help from someone that understands this and can answer my questions and misunderstandings and misinterpretations of myself. Every day I realize certain behaviors or feelings I’d have growing up and do have and how they’re all associated with my adhd
Aloha. I'm gonna be completely transparent 💖 who makes these labels? Why is it someone has this or that? And why not being a certain way, has to be a label of shame. So what it is that someone who isn't easily distracted called? Boring? Why take on labels from a society who obviously has not gotten anything right and is still in the dark ages. Why not look at someone who is not "normal," as someone to embrace? Having something to give and say? No. Instead we put labels to make them feel as if there is something wrong with them. What bs. I always knew from early age these labels were a shadows way of not looking within the projector because of their own fears. And so they make a label on someone else to feel ok because they lack the skills to bridge the gap to under and embrace another. F$#k the labels. Who are these non existent people who make them and why do we follow them? No one questions the sanity of these labels and where they come from. Just, I'm different, I must have a label that there's something wrong with me. I'm sorry. I don't need to be labeled so someone else can feel ok. I don't have this ADHD. But I have had other labels. All of them bs. We have forgotten our core Higher Self. Asleep. And allow the sheep who think they are lions to feed us their bs. Without questioning it. Who really has the issue? The ones who need to label and separate and perpetuate the guilt and shame. It's subconscious sabotage.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but there's another side. I always knew I had ADHD, but when I actually started reading about it, it changed my life. I realized so many things I felt shameful about were just common aspects of ADHD (disorganization, mismanaging time, difficulty sleeping...). For me, realizing all these things were aspects of my ADHD was empowering.
I've worked with a lot of clients that had a lot of shame around certain behaviours (forgetting things, always being late, being disorganized, etc). When I helped them understand they had ADHD, it was a huge relief for them. They weren't uniquely messed up, they weren't lazy, they just have ADHD, like millions of others.
So there's the negative side of labels that pathologize people, make them feel like something is wrong with them. Then there's the positive side, that allows people to see they are just different, and there's a huge group of people out there just like them.
Now of course I don't like the terms and the history of the pathology, but there's a massive positive movement in the ADHD world too. The thing is a lot of people truly struggle with their ADHD, and would resent anyone telling them they are ok the way they are. They are not ok, they are struggling and suffering on a daily basis.
But there are others, like me, who have managed in life. Who don't see the label ADHD as a limitation, but instead see both the strengths and weaknesses of it.
I hear what you're saying, and I don't like when anyone is looked down on for having ADHD. But I wear it proudly, knowing it doesn't define me.
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Great... always need to "find my own way" that never exist... I dont habe any intuition.
I hate to keep "looking and exploring" just to find out it don't work like EVERYTHING else.
I don't know absolutely nothing about myself.
Not knowing anything is the best starting point and mindset for exploration. Thinking you know who you are is the most restrictive thing to discovering more about yourself :)
Almost 10 minutes in and he keeps taking
Lol
I don’t feel anything and can’t concentrate on this video long enough :(
Maybe try one of the newer ones I posted that has music. The music can help. Try “Practicing Mindfulness: Welcoming our Experience” and let me know if that works for you
9 minute intro??
Yep
this is a video or ADHD????!!!!!!! you talked yourself to death my attention flew a 10000 miles...........
That’s why there’s time stamps so you can go to the meditation if you get tired of the talking lol
@@BeingIntegrated yes captain obvious, at least you could have put a tile for each part since you took your time to put it in time stamps
@@thugdaddy007 Oh I just realized I didn't actually set time stamps for this, it just made automatic chapters. I fixed that and set proper time stamps. Hope that helps.
@@BeingIntegrated thank you