Walk into meditation as a beginner and you’ll immediately hit a wall of options: mindfulness, body scan, loving-kindness, transcendental, mantra, breathwork, walking meditation, and more. Most people quit before they start simply because they can’t decide where to begin, or they pick a style that doesn’t fit their personality and assume meditation “isn’t for them.” … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to meditate by staring at your breath and felt like you were fighting your own mind, there’s another approach worth knowing about: open monitoring meditation. Instead of anchoring your attention to one thing, you let awareness stay wide open and simply notice whatever shows up — a sound, an itch, a … Read more
If you’ve tried to meditate and given up after your mind wandered for the tenth time in two minutes, you’re not doing it wrong — you’re doing it the way most guides assume, and most guides weren’t written for an ADHD brain. Traditional mindfulness instruction leans hard on sitting still and holding attention on one … Read more
