Yes, meditation can “heal” ADHD
I asked a monk if with Buddhism a person could heal ADHD, and he told me that nothing is going to get healed by focusing on the healing because what’s being implied is that there’s a desire to be healed. What I could understand from his words is that people have to stop giving power to labels and start seeing things for what they are, for example, someone may say he’s clinically depressed, then he becomes clinically depressed… ok, but why?
Because he’s making sure that he is clinically depressed, he’s constantly repeating it. This made me remember the law of attraction, something that I thought Buddhism didn’t have anything to do with it, but in the end, it seems to me that it does…
Well, actually everything in this “3D” reality is a consequence of the law of attraction, this way Buddhism wouldn’t be an exception, what I referred to as “I didn’t think Buddhism had something to do with the law of attraction” was the fact that Buddhism isn’t treated as a spiritualistic philosophy, it is treated as a science.
Back to the subject: The solution lies in seeing things for what they actually are, with clarity. If we’re overthinking, we can say to ourselves “THINKING Thinking thinking thinking….” (Start saying it a bit loud and end up a bit low), same goes for being anxious (ANXIOUS, Anxious, anxious…..), until our mind gets calm, it seems to me that what he said is that we have to accept how we are in the moment and then let go, this way we can improve, and I can attest part of this: after I’ve started practicing vipassana meditation, my focus increased way beyond what it used to be.
I believe that the monk meant that Buddhism could “heal” ADHD because what it does is solve the emotional problems, and if you’re “ADHD” you may already know people with “ADHD” has deep-rooted emotional problems that first arose in childhood and were not properly addressed, or not addressed at all, issues that arose due to difficulties the person had in integrating into groups of friends, difficulties about interacting with other people.
I also remember seeing/reading somewhere that ADHD is an excuse that people started using their lives to start escaping reality, since the issues from early childhood were not addressed, a type of safe haven was created by themselves inside their minds, to serve as a scapegoat for, it’s like saying to oneself “This is something pretty hard to do, it’s too painful, I’m going to do something else that makes me forget about this pain”, or another example, someone that was emotionally abused ever since he or she was a kid, and that person didn’t know how to deal with the problems, then… ADHD “started to happen”…
Anyway, according to the monk, going deep into oneself is the solution to start fixing what specialists call ADHD. Acceptance is the first step for healing. First, accept that you’re attached to the idea that you created a problem in your life, then start to let it go, then go deeper and deeper into the meditation practice, you’ll eventually find out the nature of your problems and how to solve them, yes, you’ve guessed it: the meditative state is not just for ADHD.
The meditative state is not limited to or exclusive to individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In other words, meditation can be beneficial for a wide range of people, not only those with ADHD.
The solution is: The more you bring yourself to the present, to the moment, to what’s happening now, the more your focus will increase, the less of an ADHD problem you’ll have.
Also, raise your vibration with whatever tools you have, you could pray to Jesus, you could use the power of the subconscious mind, use a third-eye-guided meditation, and do whatever you can to treat your emotional baggage. The more you go deeper, the more you’ll start living in the now, the less distracted you’ll be, the more you’ll start accepting your new identity: which is completely free of an ADHD thing.
Well, that’s it, I hope this content can be of help to someone else.
Por Matheus Lopes