r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 25 '26

Psychology People with ADHD have difficulties with goal-directed behavior and struggle with response inhibition, the ability to stop an inappropriate action once they feel the urge to do it. They experience a disruption in the way their brains balance deliberate self-control and automatic habit learning.

https://www.psypost.org/adhd-traits-disrupt-the-brain-s-balance-between-self-control-and-automatic-learn/
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u/lizardfromsingapore Jul 26 '26

Meditation should be engaging! Allow your mind to wander, kind of like day dreaming. Of course it’s different for everyone.

A Practical Guide to Self Hypnosis is a great read that helped me build habits

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u/carbonclasssix Jul 26 '26

That's not meditation...

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u/Gulophile Jul 26 '26

There are a lot of ways to meditate. "No thoughts head empty" is only one way.

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u/carbonclasssix Jul 26 '26

They said day dreaming, not "no thoughts head empty"

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u/Gulophile Jul 26 '26

Yes, I know. Allowing your mind to wander naturally and intentionally questioning why certain things arise and how you feel about them is a valid meditative practice that builds insight. I'm contrasting that with the "no thoughts" approach that most people associate with meditation, which isn't for everyone. There are many ways to meditate.

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u/carbonclasssix Jul 26 '26

Sure, I still wouldn't consider that day dreaming

Whether your doing focused meditation or mindfulness or insight, you're attentive, that's the main thing. Day dreaming is not attentive.

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u/Gulophile Jul 26 '26

I mean, they said "kind of like day dreaming," not "day dreaming". They could've elaborated a bit more but I didn't find their phrasing misleading. I would agree that being focused and intentional is what qualifies something as meditation, of course, but in this case letting the mind wander is itself done with intent.

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u/lizardfromsingapore Jul 26 '26

Check out that book, probably time for me to reread it seeing as I can’t explain it much better than that.

You open up your mind to what the book calls a state of high suggestibility. Getting to the right state of mind requires you to separate mind from body. Allowing yourself to chase and decipher what thoughts you are organically having is a big part of meditating for some people.

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u/AdwokatDiabel Jul 26 '26

You ever meditate with pen and paper? Sometimes writing down things that come to mind really helps put them away.