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

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.

including brief and informal mindfulness breaks in the course of daily life is an approach that works very well for ADHD patients.

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

learned that I could observe my thoughts, feelings, or body responses in a new way, without being caught up in them or without wanting to change them.

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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.

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

Observing with awareness.

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.