Post by rualani on Jul 14, 2016 4:30:40 GMT
Major disclaimer right off the bat, No drugs that directly influence the mind. No, no, no, no.
Before I took on the perspective that Ne = distraction-a-saurus-rex I was drawn to the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD and the treatments involved in it.
I've noticed that a lot of the treatments may be good for Ne users, in general, to help them anchor a bit. I figured I'd go through a list of
treatments I found interesting, and my personal experience with them.
First treatment option I ran across with meditation. As a helping hand to children with ADHD, mindfulness meditation would be applied.
It's the sort of meditation where one sits quietly and merely observes thoughts. Instead of instilling judgement upon the various thoughts
that come and go, one merely had to acknowledge and accept them. This practice is said to improve attention and the ability to resist
impulse from moods.
-I found mindful meditation to be greatly challenging. The most intriguing part about it is that my mind would attempt to enter a sort of
internal dialogue with myself. *I prefer to call it communicating with the soul, Yes I know I'm being absurd*. Yet, the point of the exercise was to
let all thoughts drift by without involving oneself with them. This created a strange situation for me, as I was engaging in a healthy practice but
another, probably also healthy, avenue was opening up everytime. Either way, Mindful meditation is hard :<.
Second treatment was scheduling time and keeping track of where it goes. Many people with ADD end up spending most their time in distractions
without any real compass or goal. It's okay to flutter around, but when it's so chaotic as to obfuscate any productivity it becomes a problem.
-I've sort of been engaging this in my quest to create a GTD (Getting things Done) System for myself. It intermingles with self-journalism and has been
insightful. I'm surprised at how immediately gratifying it can be to see where your time has gone. Even if it's spent unwisely, it's still nice to have a upper view
of the action.
Exercise... The cure for everything. Yeah, that's all I'm going to say.
Good sleep...
Diet...
Finding other disorders that may be exacerbating symptoms.
-For me this was acknowledging depression and a rather paranoid way of relating to people.
Other conditions or stressors in life can make distraction much more natural and difficult to break from.
I thought I would have more but that's all I can think of right now.
Before I took on the perspective that Ne = distraction-a-saurus-rex I was drawn to the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD and the treatments involved in it.
I've noticed that a lot of the treatments may be good for Ne users, in general, to help them anchor a bit. I figured I'd go through a list of
treatments I found interesting, and my personal experience with them.
First treatment option I ran across with meditation. As a helping hand to children with ADHD, mindfulness meditation would be applied.
It's the sort of meditation where one sits quietly and merely observes thoughts. Instead of instilling judgement upon the various thoughts
that come and go, one merely had to acknowledge and accept them. This practice is said to improve attention and the ability to resist
impulse from moods.
-I found mindful meditation to be greatly challenging. The most intriguing part about it is that my mind would attempt to enter a sort of
internal dialogue with myself. *I prefer to call it communicating with the soul, Yes I know I'm being absurd*. Yet, the point of the exercise was to
let all thoughts drift by without involving oneself with them. This created a strange situation for me, as I was engaging in a healthy practice but
another, probably also healthy, avenue was opening up everytime. Either way, Mindful meditation is hard :<.
Second treatment was scheduling time and keeping track of where it goes. Many people with ADD end up spending most their time in distractions
without any real compass or goal. It's okay to flutter around, but when it's so chaotic as to obfuscate any productivity it becomes a problem.
-I've sort of been engaging this in my quest to create a GTD (Getting things Done) System for myself. It intermingles with self-journalism and has been
insightful. I'm surprised at how immediately gratifying it can be to see where your time has gone. Even if it's spent unwisely, it's still nice to have a upper view
of the action.
Exercise... The cure for everything. Yeah, that's all I'm going to say.
Good sleep...
Diet...
Finding other disorders that may be exacerbating symptoms.
-For me this was acknowledging depression and a rather paranoid way of relating to people.
Other conditions or stressors in life can make distraction much more natural and difficult to break from.
I thought I would have more but that's all I can think of right now.