Feel like you have ADHD? Reclaim your focus!

Struggling to concentrate and stay focused?

Get easily overwhelmed?

Does your mind jump all over the place? Are you good at starting projects, but not so good at staying with them?

Do you often feel overwhelmed and on sensory overload?

Here are some thoughts on what maybe going on…

Attention deficit, lack of ability to focus, to complete small tasks in an ease full orderly fashion, to be so overwhelmed with thoughts and ideas that it’s nearly impossible to grasp one and implement it effectively.

In our society It’s not attention deficit we are struggling with it’s an attention overload. We are so overstimulated with external factors demanding our attention, we live in a society obsessed with instant gratification, we praise constant hustle. Being burnt out and stressed is somehow a sign of success.

So let’s take a step back and ask what’s really going on here, the first layer is cultural yes so we need to look at what belief system we are in investing in, and have created an agreement reality within. We need to ask, is this reality in alignment to the reality we want to be living in and creating from? Are our beliefs in balance to how we, ourselves are showing up to our lives ? If not, we don’t change our life. We need to change our beliefs, then our lives will change in accordance to our new beliefs.

Easier said than done because beliefs are programs, born into the world a beautiful spark of consciousness we are open and ready to receive input from the environment around us. The programming commences from our childhood development, our family of origin and all their generational beliefs and programs, the culture we are born into, maybe the religion, our skin color, our sex, etc etc. We go out into the world exploring and interacting whilst running these programs, creating more stories and perpetuating our beliefs and this, is essentially how the personality we have now has been formed. 

I’m going to presume, as you are reading this the inner awareness has come online, you’ve had an awakening. And now one is aware of oneself, you can to some degree see your thought patterns, the programs that are running. Nothing is no longer ‘just the way it is’, you can see your role within it. How your own thoughts are creating, how you experience your life. Without this awareness the mind and it’s jumble of thoughts, are just one big whirling soup of energy churning out stimulation for us.

We could surmise the spiritual journey is to house the consciousness in the seat of Self (what yogis call the Atman) and not in the soup of programs running in the mind. The path to embodied wisdom, health and wealth is not to transcend or ignore these programs but to go in and face them, feel the feelings, learn to safely express, to self regulate and to reprogram our own operating system.

So back to ADHD, think of the mind soup a bit like the ‘cloud’, a holding space for our thoughts. We the conscious witness, like the person logging into google, are constantly exposed to the impressions of our thoughts. When we start becoming or are disregulated and become  overstimulated, the rate of these impressions speeds up, pulling our attention all over the place, jumping from one thought to another and it’s vibrational load, causing great stress on us and lessoning our ability to grasp just one thought and to stay with it.

To make this super basic what is happening is our body become tense, sending signals to the mind saying “I’m not ok, I need something.”. And our mind, our every trusty friend sets off to to solve the problem. Do you know this feeling in your body? Kind of fidgety, when you stop there is a stream of thoughts telling you to do something, check your phone, eat something, call that person, write that email.

We are all living to some degree in the flow of; I’m not OK, I need something. And too a degree this is the flow of life, the balance of being and doing, and balance is key. Most of us need to come back to balance.

Often this busyness is the perfect mask and distraction for not stopping and going within and really looking at what’s not ok. Instead we run on a wheel of busyness, not daring to stop as there is subtle lurking sense of if we do, if we get still, everything we are avoiding will be sitting there waiting for us. Many will not take the true warrior path of facing our own demons.

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The bandaid approach 

So when we experience these uncomfortable sensations in our body of “I’m not ok, I need something”, and their many shady ways of becoming manifest. We look to change something and one way out is to speed up our vibration, so the soup of mind becomes a blur and ones awareness can rise above the soup and get some temporary rest bite, free from the noise. A moment of clarity. I think this is why a lot of the current medication‘s such as Ritalin for children, etc. is prescribed, or why people self medicate with things like cocaine and amphetamines. It’s give temporary relief. It’s not a recommended path as it’s not sustainable long-term or actually dealing with the underlying issues. In effect it’s just numbing the symptoms a bandaid. 

The wisdom way

We need to slow down and address any nervous system dysregulation, assess the health of our current life, body heart and mind. Sometimes just simply shining the light of awareness onto oneself is enough to trigger change. 

When we are met with challenges in our endeavors to slow down, our work really begins, especially if there’s unresolved trauma programs running the show. If we struggling to sit in silence and be with out thoughts then the practice has to be doing just that. It’s time to take charge and retrain the mind to respond to what we want, not the random signals the body is sending. We need to override the body and rewire the brain then, retraining the body in this new pattern. 

Which could look like sending in a new thought.. 'I’m not ok, I need something, but I can wait'. The feedback loop gets disrupted and your back in charge. You are in the seat of the witness. Creating space between thought and action for something else to be present.

When our nervous system is regulated. We are vibrating at a steady spacious rate. The thoughts are coming in a steady, manageable stream and we are seated in the witness whilst being engaged with life. We are in flow and connected, the body, mind and heart are one. When we go into contraction we come out of this expended spacious state. The quality of our thoughts diminish, speed up, our decision making ability is compromised and we are no longer in body, mind cohesion. We lost our witness and strayed too far into the soup.

Our clever inner wisdom is always working to put us back in balance, but are we listening? 

Because we’ve been so program to seek outside of ourselves we can often fail to sit down, get quiet and deeply ask, 'if I’m not OK', what beliefs am I holding that make me feel this way? Where did these beliefs come from? When did I agree to believe them? How have these beliefs served me in the past and how are they serving me now?

If you want to dive deeper into this and how to clear it check out my pages on developmental trauma or check out my coaching options.

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Blessings, thank you for reading Ahisha xx

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