I’m trying a new discipline (strategy, skill) which is quite difficult with ADD or ADHD, of just being three times a day. I will sit and just be for a few minutes. This is not meditation, which requires not getting involved with my thoughts, nor awareness or mindfullness, which require paying attention to what is going on. Nope, it’s just being. Hopefully that giant internal fly wheel that drives me will slow down. Anyway, it will interesting, I hope beneficial, and challenging. It may replenish willpower? Although clearly it will use up some willpower. I’ll post a report later on.
Does anyone have experience with this? Suggestions?
doug 
i just found this on amazon- it says that just sitting is not meditation. a whole book on it.
i am soliciting suggestions for topics. Anyone? thank you one and all
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this is encouraraging. i will let you know in a future post. thank you for the comment
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Hi Doug,
A topic that I would be interested in is strategies for getting regular exercise. That has always been a tough one for me, especially with the issues of taking the time when there are always “more important” things to do, but on the other hand, the realization that if I exercised regularly I would be more able (mentally and physically) to do those other things, (theoretically). Also the whole balance of exercise and depression/tiredness…
Thank you!
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good. i will do a post on exercise soon, it’s important for us. thank you for the suggestion.
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Hi Doug,
I’m curious about how this works out for you. I’ve had “places” in the past, (like staring out the window at the back yard in our old house) where I just stared and didn’t really even think much. I don’t know if this is what “just being” is or not, but it was helpful to me. Like the secret place mentioned in Forrest Carter’s “The Education of Little Tree”. Also, a good friend gave me a set of CDs called “Getting Unstuck” by Pema Chodron when I told him I might be ADD and said they had been very helpful to him. They have been extremely helpful to me and I feel like they will grow on me even more as time goes by. I’m new at this ADD stuff and new at meditation/mindfulness and this just being has got me very curious. Thank you!
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