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Today, we're going to talk about how ADHD is actually a meditation superpower, before we dive in further about ADHD and meditation and how it's a superpower. I want to take a second to tell you all where I'm coming from. So I'm Alo kenoja, also known as Dr K. I studied for about seven years to become a monk, and then ended up going to med school and becoming a psychiatrist. So a lot of what we're teaching you all today is sort of a combination of these perspectives. If y'all want more information on ADHD or meditation, we've got plenty of videos on our YouTube channel, and we also have Dr K's guide to ADHD and doing stuff. So if y'all are interested, y'all can check that stuff out. Now,

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ADHD is not good at meditation. It makes it so hard, because, honestly, that's our experience, right? So we sort of think that meditation is sitting there and focusing on something incredibly boring, like my breath, and I'm just gonna observe the breath, and after all of like six seconds, if you've got ADHD, you're kind of bored with that. And honestly, I was super bored with it, too. When I first started learning meditation, I found it to be incredibly boring. But that's not because meditation is incredibly boring, or even that my mind wasn't strong enough to be able to meditate properly, because that's what we think, too, right? If you've got ADHD, or if you're someone who's bad at meditating, you think that okay, if I practice this long enough, and I keep doing it, eventually my mind will improve, and then I'll be able to focus and then it'll be fun. But that's not actually how it works. It's a bunch of BS. If you find meditation to be boring, that's because the kind of meditation that we have all learned is for neurotypical people. So let's think about this for a second.