March Mindfulness is Mashable’s series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn’t have to be madness.
I used to say I was allergic to meditation. Actually, the mere suggestion felt offensive, a passive-aggressive euphemism for telling me to just calm down and relax via some New Age-y bullshit that seemed diametrically opposed to how my ADHD brain worked.
In some ways, I was right. In most ways, I was wrong.
“It didn’t always seem like a good match,” said Dr. Lidia Zylowska, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Minnesota Medical School who authored Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD (2012) and Mindfulness for Adult ADHD: A Clinician’s Guide (2020). People assume practicing mindfulness meditation requires one to sit still, empty the mind, and pay attention for prolonged periods of time — all things folks with attention deficit hyperactive disorder struggle with. “It seemed like it might be a setup for failure. But when you think about what we do when you break a leg, it’s strengthening exercises. Read more…
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