The largest review of ADHD treatments ever conducted confirmed that medication works in the short term—but quietly found that one overlooked practice shows the strongest lasting benefits.
I have had an increasingly joyful and adventurous life this past year since discovering and exploring my hunter-ness. I have even gotten to the point of not desperately trying to change the world because I just found out. 😄
I believe I came to this understanding quickly because I have been working with a trainer on mindfullness and how to change my belief systems to be more in concert with the deeper part of my consciousness.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world has a long way to go before understanding and taking advantage of the gold mine we are harboring. I started a conversation about it with ChatGBT yesterday which made clear how far away we are - a stong bias for “science” and against research as a reliable source. I assume there is some corporate master underlying this response but it’s not my problem - I know who I am and I know what I know is valid - at the very least, for me.
This appeared after a couple days trying to built a kit with my husband. You just saved me hours of counseling he wouldn’t agree to. After 44 years together, I appreciate our differences. Pictures of our son and grandson help. Without the man of my dreams we wouldn’t have them. Peace, Love, Health and Happiness to all beings on our amazing planet.
What I find so compelling here is the idea that mindfulness may help ADHD people not by turning them into different kinds of minds, but by helping them return more intentionally to a state they already know.
That lands for me.
In my own language, I’d say this is part of the shift from symptoms to signals. Many people with ADHD are not actually bad at awareness. They’re often exquisitely aware. What they struggle with is consistency, modulation, and voluntary re-entry. The problem is not always that the signal isn’t there. It’s that the modern world is loud, fragmented, and relentlessly decontextualizing. Mindfulness may help restore signal fidelity.
What you name so well Thom, is that present-moment awareness is not foreign to many ADHD people. It often shows up under the right conditions: urgency, interest, beauty, danger, challenge, meaning. The work is learning how to access that state with more intention and less accident. In that sense, mindfulness is not just calming. It may be training in how to come home to your own mind.
Gosh. I've had the "Full Catastrophe" Kabatt-Zinn book in my life for a long time, and my reaction to this post of yours, Thom, is; are you ADHD at all if this works for you?
I have had an increasingly joyful and adventurous life this past year since discovering and exploring my hunter-ness. I have even gotten to the point of not desperately trying to change the world because I just found out. 😄
I believe I came to this understanding quickly because I have been working with a trainer on mindfullness and how to change my belief systems to be more in concert with the deeper part of my consciousness.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world has a long way to go before understanding and taking advantage of the gold mine we are harboring. I started a conversation about it with ChatGBT yesterday which made clear how far away we are - a stong bias for “science” and against research as a reliable source. I assume there is some corporate master underlying this response but it’s not my problem - I know who I am and I know what I know is valid - at the very least, for me.
This appeared after a couple days trying to built a kit with my husband. You just saved me hours of counseling he wouldn’t agree to. After 44 years together, I appreciate our differences. Pictures of our son and grandson help. Without the man of my dreams we wouldn’t have them. Peace, Love, Health and Happiness to all beings on our amazing planet.
What I find so compelling here is the idea that mindfulness may help ADHD people not by turning them into different kinds of minds, but by helping them return more intentionally to a state they already know.
That lands for me.
In my own language, I’d say this is part of the shift from symptoms to signals. Many people with ADHD are not actually bad at awareness. They’re often exquisitely aware. What they struggle with is consistency, modulation, and voluntary re-entry. The problem is not always that the signal isn’t there. It’s that the modern world is loud, fragmented, and relentlessly decontextualizing. Mindfulness may help restore signal fidelity.
What you name so well Thom, is that present-moment awareness is not foreign to many ADHD people. It often shows up under the right conditions: urgency, interest, beauty, danger, challenge, meaning. The work is learning how to access that state with more intention and less accident. In that sense, mindfulness is not just calming. It may be training in how to come home to your own mind.
Gosh. I've had the "Full Catastrophe" Kabatt-Zinn book in my life for a long time, and my reaction to this post of yours, Thom, is; are you ADHD at all if this works for you?