ADD and ADHD can make it hard to focus & get things done. You have lots of mental energy (that's why you're so smart. ) but you have a hard time directing it to one thing at a time. Many people go through their entire lives in this scatter-brained state, jumping from thing to thing, never fully concentrating on, or actually enjoying, anything. This can lead to major school & career problems (not paying attention in class, not paying attention at work, not caring about what you're working on, bouncing from job to job, career to career, etc), and problems becoming a successful adult.
ADD and ADHD can make it hard to focus & get things done. You have lots of mental energy (that's why you're so smart. ) but you have a hard time directing it to one thing at a time. Many people go through their entire lives in this scatter-brained state, jumping from thing to thing, never fully concentrating on, or actually enjoying, anything. This can lead to major school & career problems (not paying attention in class, not paying attention at work, not caring about what you're working on, bouncing from job to job, career to career, etc), and problems becoming a successful adult.
For some handicaps, there is simply no cure, no way out. Thankfully, ADD/ADHD is NOT one of those handicaps. ADD & ADHD can actually be a blessing in disguise, if you learn how to channel your mental energy, to focus it, to make it like a laser. This is called hyperfocusing, and it is a superpower unique to ADD/ADHD people.
You may have noticed that while you sometimes can't focus on anything at all, sometimes you can get extremely zoned in to one thing (like these words, for example). And oftentimes (for some of us, more often than not), the thing that you're zoned into is the wrong thing. For example, my first year in college I got so sucked into social media that I barely went outside and met actual friends. Sometimes this still happens to me, if I pick up my phone right when I wake up and click on a social media notification before I start meditating for the day. Social media platforms are designed to suck you in that's how they make money. That's bad news for ADD / ADHD people. And there are tons of other useless, unproductive, time-wasting things that can suck in your attention, if you don't learn how to control your hyperfocus.
The good news is that you can learn how to control your hyperfocus, and use it to supercharge your life by focusing on the things you actually want to be focused on. It's not easy, but it is actually very simple. The answer can be written in just ten letters:
Meditation is the single most important key to controlling your hyperfocus, focusing on what you want to focus on, and moving your attention to the things that you want it to be on. Meditation is not some woo-woo magical thing... it's literally just training your brain to focus. That's literally what meditation IS. It's a practice of bringing your mind into the present moment, and focusing it on one thing at a time. This practice strengthens the parts of your brain that are responsible for regulating your attention. Just like lifting weights builds muscles in your body, practicing meditation builds neural connections in your brain (it's a process called neuroplasticity look it up. ). Just like your muscles get bigger from lifting weights, your brain gets bigger by practicing meditation. And just like you can focus your exercise on strengthening a particular part of your body (arms, legs, chest, etc), you can focus your meditation on strengthening a particular part of your mind (deep focus, broad focus, generating joy, love, happiness, etc).
Many of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, futurists, inventors, and celebrities are people who have learned to direct their ADHD energy and control their innate powers of hyperfocus. In this course, we will use meditation to do that, and more to become more focused, successful, stable, joyful, energized, and just plain happier in life.
By the end of this course, you will be experienced with five different meditation techniques, which you can practice in daily life:
- breathwork
- mindfulness
- mindfulness of breathing
- concentrating on a physical object, and
- concentrating on an activity,
You'll be equipped with the tools you need to become the best version of yourself, and transform your ADD/ADHD from a handicap into a superpower.
The skills you'll learn in this course will be worth 1000x more than the price of the course. Not only will this course save you money on ADD/ADHD drugs like Adderall & Ritalin, and help you make tens, hundreds, or thousands of times more successful in life than you would have been without being able to control your superpowers of hyperfocus, the meditations you learn in this course will make you immeasurably happier, over the course of your lifetime. And that's kind of the point of this whole "life" thing anyway, isn't it? What's $50 in comparison to a lifetime of sustainable happiness?
Don't get distracted by any shiny things or other tabs. Click the button to sign up for this course now. This may be the single most important moment in your life. Stay focused, sign up now, and start watching right away.
Intro to the course. Gives you an understanding of the benefits that you will gain from the course.
Gives you an idea of what to expect in this course.
Explains how ADHD works in your mind and gives you an idea of how to fix it.
This video gives you an idea of how you can turn your ADHD into a superpower!
This is a crazy amazing meditation technique that will charge up your body and brain with oxygen and energy! Try it with me, as intensely as you can.
This is a beautiful meditation technique that will help you "wake up" and become aware of your experience of being alive, here and now, in this moment.
This is an ancient Buddhist meditation technique -- one of the most popular meditation techniques in the world. It trains your brain to concentrate, by focusing on the breathing.
This video gives you some tips on how to deal with the wandering mind during meditation (this is especially important when you're dealing with ADHD)!
This video will give you an idea of what to expect as you progress on your meditation journey.
In this exercise, you'll be practicing a simple technique that you can bring into daily life: concentrating on the experience of a physical object.
In this video, you'll learn how to activate your ADHD superpowers in daily life!
In this video you'll practice your hyper focus powers on a super boring activity: cleaning! (side benefit: things gets clean)
In this video you'll learn how to integrate meditation into your daily life.
In this video, you'll learn some ways to focus on what's important in life, so that you can be successful in anything that you want to do.
Conclusion: bringing it all home.
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