Great read. Yoga has helped me to cope with this problem, as well as even more serious and complex mental diagnoses. It is not the only tool I use, but one I needed so much that by age 21, yoga was the the only place where survival even seemed possible. Work those (eight) limbs! Imagine trying to pay attention to every single thing your sensory inputs are telling you simultaneously—for every day of your life. Or how about having to learn how to read while simultaneously trying to memorize every word you are reading…all while connecting everything you read to everything you already know, at the same time? Sound fun? Asana (physical postures)? Gimme some of that—I need to exhaust this body so I can do the rest of the practice. Otherwise, its like giving an espresso to an adolescent baboon and asking him to do your taxes for you. this gift has been given a name that is all wrong. Its not a deficit of attention but rather, an abundance of it. A better name would be AAG, Attention Abundance Gift...
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:58:01 +0000
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