Super interesting. Thanks for sharing. You know so much, Joseph, and know your science. Have you ever come across someone called Loch Kelly? If not, he is a meditation teacher and Internal family systems practitioner. He got taught the Tibetan Buddhist direct pointing out instructions from the dzogchen/mahamudra (never too sure the differences between the two!) traditions many years ago (from a very well respected master, father of yongey mingyur rinpoche). Anyway, interestingly, Loch Kelly also has ADHD. But he often says that his meditation practices have "cured adhd" (although like you he has also used therapy, in this case ifs) to heal some inner children which make this meditation practice easier.
He has been in studies where advanced practitioners have mri scans etc to register brain activity. So he was studied while coming into awareness that is outside and within, working from heartmind without going up to thought. Rest is a quote verbatim from him:
From this non space dual mind that is aware of teh adhd mind as an object the effortless focus can focus without the midn wandering because you are not focusing from the samll mind. So much of what we are limited is this attempt to use attention, mental ideas of self, pay attention is our only strategy, we'll end up bankrupt, attention can't sustain itself. we run out of energy.
It is why i call it awake loving flow. cause when you get into this spacious feeling - very similar as flow state very similar to the optimal functioning from a flow state that is very similar to getting into activities that have to work without being in thimking mind(eg extreme skiing, professional sports, high level musicians in an orchestra) where you have to get into a flow and you go beyond the frontal lobe attentional executive function. It is called transient hypo frontalality"
Thoughts on ADHD coupled with bipolar? Recent diagnosis March 2025 for adhd then most recently, last week, din ding bipolar too Jemma 🙃
Should have clarified, psychiatrist diagnosed inattentive adhd and type 1 bipolar
Super interesting. Thanks for sharing. You know so much, Joseph, and know your science. Have you ever come across someone called Loch Kelly? If not, he is a meditation teacher and Internal family systems practitioner. He got taught the Tibetan Buddhist direct pointing out instructions from the dzogchen/mahamudra (never too sure the differences between the two!) traditions many years ago (from a very well respected master, father of yongey mingyur rinpoche). Anyway, interestingly, Loch Kelly also has ADHD. But he often says that his meditation practices have "cured adhd" (although like you he has also used therapy, in this case ifs) to heal some inner children which make this meditation practice easier.
He has been in studies where advanced practitioners have mri scans etc to register brain activity. So he was studied while coming into awareness that is outside and within, working from heartmind without going up to thought. Rest is a quote verbatim from him:
From this non space dual mind that is aware of teh adhd mind as an object the effortless focus can focus without the midn wandering because you are not focusing from the samll mind. So much of what we are limited is this attempt to use attention, mental ideas of self, pay attention is our only strategy, we'll end up bankrupt, attention can't sustain itself. we run out of energy.
It is why i call it awake loving flow. cause when you get into this spacious feeling - very similar as flow state very similar to the optimal functioning from a flow state that is very similar to getting into activities that have to work without being in thimking mind(eg extreme skiing, professional sports, high level musicians in an orchestra) where you have to get into a flow and you go beyond the frontal lobe attentional executive function. It is called transient hypo frontalality"