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Meditation and How It Helped Me
There are rules on how to write for a website, this is the biggest one: get to the point. If there is only one page that you are going to read from this website I want it to be this one.
So here it goes. Meditation has been my medicine from curing me of Crohn’s Colitis, to learning to reduce stress, to making my mind into the fine tuned machine it is today. Meditation is the owner’s manual of the mind.
I used visualization to cure Crohn’s Colitis. Also with visualization I created a positive picture in my mind to release the fear of learning to write. I used focus meditation to become the overseer of my thoughts.
With the fast moving creativity of the ADHD mind, the mundane or repetitive activities of everyday life can be a challenge. Focus meditation helped train and discipline my mind to align with the mundane tasks and be successful in my everyday life.This same discipline I used to focus on the mundane helped enhance my creative mind, making me a better thinker by learning how to organize my thoughts.
Taking the confusion out of my thought process helped make my creative thoughts more powerful and clear.
The pure gift of meditation is this: to tame the mind and learn to use its power.
The ADHD brain is like a car with one speed: fast and out of control. It is great on a straight away but stinks on the curves. Meditation is a gas pedal, brake pedal, and a shifter. The gas pedal regulates how fast or slow the motor (mind) is revving. The brake pedal gives the motor (mind) time to rest or recharge.
The shifter or transmission helps shift the motor (mind) from one gear to the other. The brain needs a low gear to make it up that steep hill, to talk to a person or group whose minds are not functioning as quickly as one with the gift of ADHD. You shift down to explain yourself clearly. The middle gear is to cruise at a normal rate, not so much effort to make yourself clear but you are making an appearance and not speeding away. High gear is hanging out with you guys, thinking faster than we talk and almost not having to talk because we are so sensitive and multidimensional in our thinking that we communicate with very few words.
Looking back at my life I now see what meditation has done for me. I learned meditation for a host of reasons other than helping my ADHD. Through it all, meditation has been the disciplinarian, the teacher and the visionary and my ADHD has been the power, the driving force. This bonding of meditation and ADHD is the stuff of living legends and has made my life a success.
Let me say it again. The multidimensional capability of the ADHD brain is raw power. Through training and observing how your mind works, you have all that power focused and it’s full speed ahead.
Well I hope I got my point across. I hope you look into meditation. If you have any questions on meditation please do not hesitate to ask.
Sincerely,
Robert Stickles
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