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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Exercise, food and other supports Twenty minutes Under stress Clear all

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

Systems for daily life 4 Feelings and focus 3 Screens and attention 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Get started 1 Treatment and medication 1 Medication and how it works 1 Exercise, food and other supports 1 Shame and stigma 1 Remembering to do it 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 8 Coming and going 1 Under stress 1

Peripheral biofeedback, the sort that tracks skin conductance and heart rate rather than brainwaves, has more behind it than neurofeedback does. You practise letting the body drop into a calmer state while a monitor shows you it happening.

Once that state is familiar, pair it with a distinctive scent used only for this. After enough repetitions the smell starts pulling the state along…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28