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- Mediate is super real though. No its not gonna make you more functional or successfully at your job. But it can make you feel so much better. But even after you experienced this it remains difficult to keep doing it. Its kinda weird, is there a term for this?
Since i learned how to properly mediate (google "gateway tapes" for those interested), every time i do so i feel like "wow this is amazing i should do this more often" then 2 months pass where i don't
Just went and tried the Orientation tape. It's quite nice for relaxing I suppose, but I struggled a lot with both the visualisation and the "hypnosis", also the long silences were tedious. I have aphantasia and I've found hypnotism doesn't work at all for me before in the past, so perhaps I'm simply unsuited for this.
I know that we hate reddit but there's a meditation guide from r/meditation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/wiki/faq/#wiki_how_do_i_begin.3F
Edit: it's not that you're unsuited for this but rather your expectations about meditation don't sound correct to me.
Oh I've meditated many times, including guided meditation with a professional a few times. So while I'm far from an expert, I'd consider myself familiar enough to have reasonable expectations and be able to make comparisons to other meditation tracks. To clarify, I wasn't saying I'm unsuited to meditation, simply unsuited to that specific tape and presumably the tapes that follow. Although I suppose I've never found meditation to be particularly useful anyway apart from for relaxation.
If that's the case then it's a shame. I also have huge problems with consistency because of ADHD and never managed to get into it even though I know what to expect and how to do it. All I can do is spend time on meditation communities and read experiences of other people.
And I misread what you wrote earlier, that's why I assumed that you have wrong expectations with meditation lol
I don't know do you meant by "is there a term for this" but meditation has different stages and you can even experience ecstasy/happines or some rides like on psychodelics. Never experienced that stuff myself though.
It does! And i have actually experienced these in no small part thanks to the monroe gateway tapes.
The terminology i am looking for is for #4 in this chain of events:
1: I never regret a meditation session, how short or long or deep or shallow it might be. They are always a satisfying way to spend time
2: i find meditation does me a lot of good, higher focus, more energy. Its like a powernap except if i try a real powernap i wake up more tired and angry for sm reason.
3: I state that meditation might be one of the most impactful skills i have ever learned in my life.
4: I stop meditating for literal months????
Maybe i should post this as a gru meme on the adhd/autism communities idk.
It's because meditating doesn't give you an immediate dopamine hit
- fellow ADHDer