As somebody with diagnosed ADHD, it doesn’t work to “sit down and meditate” if I’m not rnaodnly finding myself in a setting where it would be a guided meditation where somebody else would lead. I am saying randomly because due to the fact that I cannot sit down and just do it, I don’t have much experience doing it, thus its hard to make the practice an interest and therefore ultra hard to make it a routine or a something I’d do. I could want to do it super bad but I won’t.
I would feel stressed attempting to relax and spending the time to meditate.
Yes I’ve been trying for close to 20 years. The only thing that works is to meditate while doing a physical activity. Something repetitive and my brain will eventually get quite. Once I stopped trying to do it the neurotypical way, it got much easier.
What helped me is doing it in small sessions.
Like only for 5 minutes or just 2-3 minutes or just doing breathing exercises and not doing the mindful part.
Before sleep worked best when I was super tired, sometimes I just fell asleep while meditating and that was really sweet. You can do it lying down as well.
But yeah, not going to lie, it’s difficult to get that “mindful” state.
As somebody with diagnosed ADHD, it doesn’t work to “sit down and meditate” if I’m not rnaodnly finding myself in a setting where it would be a guided meditation where somebody else would lead. I am saying randomly because due to the fact that I cannot sit down and just do it, I don’t have much experience doing it, thus its hard to make the practice an interest and therefore ultra hard to make it a routine or a something I’d do. I could want to do it super bad but I won’t.
I would feel stressed attempting to relax and spending the time to meditate.
Yes I’ve been trying for close to 20 years. The only thing that works is to meditate while doing a physical activity. Something repetitive and my brain will eventually get quite. Once I stopped trying to do it the neurotypical way, it got much easier.
True.
What helped me is doing it in small sessions. Like only for 5 minutes or just 2-3 minutes or just doing breathing exercises and not doing the mindful part.
Before sleep worked best when I was super tired, sometimes I just fell asleep while meditating and that was really sweet. You can do it lying down as well.
But yeah, not going to lie, it’s difficult to get that “mindful” state.