Drop the story that you cannot practice mindfulness. You do not seek (and will never get) a perfectly quiet mind. Your body may remain restless.
That’s okay. Mindfulness reflects that, as life can be quite changing and uncertain, it’s good to build your reserves of patience and resilience.We often live in a state of distracted autopilot, not paying close attention to what we are hearing or doing in the moment.
We get caught up in habit and reactivity, saying and responding as we typically do without intention.But there are concrete implications to not seeing what’s actually going on as it happens.
With mindfulness, in contrast, you do your imperfect best to give moment-to-moment, unbiased, compassionate awareness to your life.Mindfulness aims to increase your happiness and ease — with or without ADHD.
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