The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals

Practice being kind to yourself. Don’t judge your experience as good or bad; simply be curious about how your mind works. At the end of this meditation, offer yourself some appreciation for taking the time to pause, for training your attention and awareness, and for connecting more fully with yourself in the present moment.

With ADHD, the feeling of boredom and craving for novelty can come up often and easily. Tuning in to your five senses is one way to bring interest and novelty to every moment of your life—even mundane activities can feel new and interesting.

It’s often said that in ADHD the problem isn’t that a person isn’t able to pay attention, but that he or she isn’t able to pay attention to the right thing at the right time.

The difference in the brightness and readiness of your attention is a difference in alerting.

Orienting has to do with movement of attention toward a sensory stimulus or shifting attention from one thing to another.

While reasons for being scattered may be different, the antidote is learning to pause and shift your attention—this time in a purposeful way—to the present moment.

Conflict attention has to do with choosing and controlling responses, and it is involved in paying attention despite distractions.

In our lives, we can also get “fixed” on one way of seeing things, even though multiple possibilities might exist. 2. Can you further expand your awareness

Dr. Russell Barkley, a prominent psychologist and an expert in the ADHD field, in fact calls ADHD “the disorder of self-regulation.”