Different Method of Meditation

I've tried meditating. Quieting my mind and reaching that state of being free of your body, Maybe it's because my ADHD (diagnosed not once but twice), doesn't like to go quiet. Quiet is just more opportunity to think about an unlimited amount of random things. Maybe it's the CPTSD that won't allow it because I'm so hypervigilant.

Maybe it's not because of any of those things at all, but either way I struggle with it and with the help of AI, found a new way. AI named it Shadow Sound Meditation. (I've only tried it a couple of times so far and must not have picked the right time because family kept interrupting me.) The way this method works is you use a sound that's repetitive, but steady. You can use a clock ticking or maybe the sound of water dripping. Then as you listen to it you focus on the silence in between the sound. Next when you start feeling comfortable enough you synchronize your breathing to it.

I don't get enough silence. So trying to hold it together.

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Royricky09

ADHD (diagnosed not once but twice), doesn't like to go quiet. Quiet is just more opportunity to think about an unlimited amount of random things. Maybe it's the CPTSD that won't allow it because I'm so hypervigilant.

You know that's BS, right?
It's just your coping mechanism and everyone has different.

Meditation is also different for everyone. Same method doesn't work for all.

There are so many activities that are part of meditation.

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kodiac · 22-25, M

@Royricky09 i guess we have to agree to disagree. When out of the blue I'm hit with a flashback i wasn't thinking wow id like to have a flashback today . These thing happen without any conscience thought.

morrgin · F

@kodiac sounds like youve had experieces that were very stressfull and traumatic. Trauma changes your brain. It wasnt your fault whatever happened to you and your trauma responses are a normal reaction to it. What is in your power is to find ways process it like with a therapist to help you work through it. It takes time and patience.
Lots of people think that when bad things happen that you need to push through it and with time you'll move beyond. It honestly doesnt work that way. The reason for this is that when you experienced a traumatic event or even chronic trauma over a period of time like with abuse you learned ways to cope with it. That could mean being guarded, avoiding situations, anger as a defense, drug habits, alcoholism. Those coping habits and thinking patterns protected you and helped you deal with threats the best way you could. But now the threats are no longer there and youre using the same methods of coping that you did before and its not working anymore. A therapist helps you work through it and helps you learn new healthier ways of coping and dealing with the world.

kodiac · 22-25, M

@morrgin Thank you for your kindness

pdockal · 56-60, M

Keep trying
Experience & experiment different techniques
One will eventually work for you
Don't listen to the naysayers
You'll find your path soon

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

LOL. Yeah the ADHD brain is like having several circuses running at the same time with a used car auction chiming on in the background. LOL

morrgin · F

@Dainbramadge I'd go to see that

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@morrgin LOL.

Nick1 · 61-69, M

Meditation is elusive, specially when you try.
It just happens when you are not trying or when you are doing nothing. All you have to do is be an observer and let it happen.

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