Last week I tuned in for a session with Stephanie Sarkis and Laurie Dupar on the Succeed with ADHD Telesummit. What caught my attention was when she and Laurie started talking about diaphragmatic breathing.
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Kind Wishes
Check in on your breath, your body and your thoughts. Really check in.
Active, tense, soft, distracted, closed, or calm? Just notice.
Wonder where Kind Wishes practice is going? You’ll know by the end, when you check in again.
Elevator Practice
Busy minds and bodies can match busy places and times. And then there are places and times that call for calmer minds and calmer bodies. Our bodies are so connected to our minds that they can help each other settle, with Elevator Practice.
Resilience Practice
Resilience can be considered strength – a strength that comes from the inside.
Resilience Practice is simply that – an opportunity to create a habit – a habit of strength.
This is the strength needed to skillfully handle challenges and return to balance once the storm passes.
With strength – you remain.
Tapping Practice
There will be times when you notice that it is difficult to stay-the-course, to keep going.
Tapping Practice might create a sense of internal steadiness –that strength we need to keep showing up, keep going – even when something feels challenging or unfamiliar.
Build a steady strength in your mind and body, with practice.
Counting Breath
Counting Breath might create a sense of steadiness – that inner strength that we need to keep showing up, keep going – even when something feels challenging or unfamiliar.
Especially when something feels challenging or unfamiliar.
Build a steady link in your body and your mind, with practice, with breath.
Press and Lower [aka “Sloppy Sleeves”]
However energetic you are feeling is fine. High energy, low energy, or somewhere in between. Then there are those times when you need to change your energy to fit where you are and what you are doing. For Press and Lower, imagine that you need to bring your energy down. To slow yourself down.
Benefits of Mindfulness for ADHD [Infographic]
Get inspired to practice mindfulness. Download and print our Benefits of Mindfulness for ADHD infographic, designed for easy printing on letter-size paper. Hang it on your fridge, bulletin board, or wall to help keep you practicing! No more 'out of sight, out of mind'.
Pebble Practice
There are times when we can feel small - like we can't affect what is going on our inside or outside. We can feel powerless to change our mood or our situation.
Pebble Practice begins small and expands. It can stimulate a sense of power, the capacity to change or keep going.
The ADHD Mindfulness Craze: It all Started with One Little Study
Wherever you turn for your media, the message is the same. We’re in love with the idea of mindfulness. This mindfulness craze resonates for many people, but especially those with ADHD. Because a mindfulness practice can help us pay attention better, resist distractions, be less impulsive, remember what we are doing in the moment…