I have ADHD and a meditation practice. I don’t try to “quiet my mind,” that’s pointless and impossible to me. Just pay attention to my thoughts. I’ve got thoughts running through my head constantly, I can’t go through one breath cycle with a “quiet mind.” But that doesn’t mean I can’t meditate for 45 minutes or so.

I love being near water (lots of lakes here in MN), and I often use the sound of ocean waves as my “sleep noise,” but I’m scared to death of being submerged in it. God, I hate my brain sometimes.
But thank you for the suggestion! :-)

When I was a kid, I’d lay awake at night, because I couldn’t stop thinking about my breathing. I had to consciously breath. I hated it.

Professional therapist here. One important thing to keep in mind is that while all meditation is mindful, not all mindfulness is meditation. I never ask a client to “quiet their mind,” because that’s nearly impossible. Instead, I ask people to notice things, ideally without judgement. Notice your thoughts, but let…

Whenever we get out of Quarantimes, try a sensory deprivation tank! I was a little worried it would be freaky, but it was amazing. A couple friends of mine said they hallucinated a lot when they did it, but I didn’t. Instead, I was so intensely relaxed. You completely and effortlessly float in the very salty water,…

Speaking of exercise, I feel like the best way for some people to go about mindfulness is to engage in some kind of activity that inherently requires it. Idk what the research says on doing other activities “meditatively” versus doing standalone meditation. But when I’m squatting for example, I’m both very in the…

This!

I’ve done way more word processing then I care to admit. I have never found a word processor that does anything nearly as well as Word. If you need to have complete control over the formatting of your document to submit your thesis (hundreds of footnotes, hundreds of pages, tables of contents and citations that change…