Overcoming Attention Deficiency - ADD & ADHD | Sadhguru

ADHD isn’t actually an deficiency in attention. It’s the inability to regulate attention so people with adhd actually focus too little OR too much (which is referred to as hyperfocus). Overall, it’s an executive functioning disorder.

I agree to some extend. But ADD and ADHD does not just affect your ability to focus. I affects your sleep, your social life, your ability to study, work and do chores etc. Of course it varies from person to person, but it's not something you overcome, it's something you learn to live with. I got diagnosed with ADD a few years ago at age 24. I've had to rearrange a lot of my life in order to work with my ADD (and depression). But many of the most succesful people on Earth have disorders like AD(H)D and autism. Probably because we are good experts. We find a passion and hyper-focus on it, we become obsessed. Finding your passion is a good advice, because then it will no longer feel like work.

With due respect, ADHD is a neurological problem and not just an excuse or result of a lack of interest. Personally, I felt this video was insulting to the real aspect of it. I understand the motto behind the talk to feel empowered and not feel weak and less but it does not change its reality. (Edited) Also, finding passion DOES help, but it still does not help with the focus. About meditation, before getting diagnosed with ADHD, I have been meditating, it alleviates 30% but does not help. I want to clarify one point, people who say they have ADHD want to di-stigmatize it rather than gain attention. The lack of social empathy and force of the term 'normal' itself shows the amount of fear around the topic. If we want a society where neurodivergent (a better terminology) if ADHD sounds depressing :D humans are looked at like any other, we too must contribute to building a judgment-free, empathetic environment. Till then, I feel it is good to let those who are neurodivergent know that they don't lack anything and realize it is not behavioral.

Sadhguru, I've had ADD since I was a child. My natural tendency towards curiosity meant I performed very well in school, until highschool and university. I was unmedicated for some time, but now that I am on it I suggest those who suffer with ADD to seek appropriate medication. My hyperfixations have been a boon and a curse, at times I become exceedingly productive, other times I spend hours researching useless topics. I get what you mean about having attention focused on other things rather than a lack of attention, but the issue is a lack of reward in actions. It's miserable to have no motivation, and disheartening to feel no satisfaction from completing hard work, and sometimes that is remedied by stimulants for many. That being said, I've been studying as an accountant for years and struggling through much of it. However, once I identified my passion in metalworking, suddenly all the work required became a reward in itself. Finding one's passion is the best remedy to ADD/ADHD

This advice sounds great in theory but when add affects one's ability to do required actions (cleaning, hygiene, bill payments, etc) you can't just wait for the thing you want to focus all of your attention on. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thank you for this. I'm 52 years old and have been diagnosed with ADHD. So for 44 years I have always believed I was a bad man with a bad mouth to finally realize that I have a brain disorder. Now I know I am finally bringing some order to my life and learning to cope and work on my brain to get its act together. Hats off to my wife of 21 years who has stuck by my side through thick and thin.

”The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it. - Sadhguru”

This is a damning, stigma-reinforcing explanation of ADHD. ADHD is not a label, but an acknowledgement of a disability that enables those diagniosed with it to gain enhanced self-awareness and seek the necessary support to help them thrive. Further, Sadhguru contrasts himself with ADHDers by saying he has too much attention; he needs to educate himself on the reality of ADHD which in fact is very much about having too much, rather than not enough attention, feeling one must pay attewntion to absolutely everything without filter, and times being able to 'hyperfocus' for hours on a single interest. ADHD does not fall within the normal spectrum of 'everybody is different', it is a neurobiological brain difference. It encompasses far more than 'not paying attention'; it includes difficulties with all areas of executive function and emotional regulation. Those diagnosed with ADHD only have to worry about being 'labelled' so long as they live in a world that reinforces the stigma it carries as not being a genuine condition, which this video - in the guise of spiritual development - perpetuates. Sadh Guru mocks the diagnosisof ADHD when he lists random letters and insinuates that everyone is looking for a title. This video hurts people with ADHD. I am one of them.

“Overcoming ADHD….” That’s like saying “overcoming paralysis…” you don’t overcome either. You learn to cope and bend your disability around society to better help you fit in.

I have been suffering from being labeled ADHD..i have been medicated and been a robot..i am listening to you, sadguru..in tears. I thank you!!! Thankful for you addressing this. Grateful. Thanks!

Wow. So I can cure my neurological disorder just by getting a hobby? Wow thanks!

ADHD is more that paying attention. It's executive function. It's real medical condition.

I hope that someone was there in Isha to make Sadhguru understand that problem of attention and depression are different from ADHD and Clinical depression. One is a disase and the other is the incabapility of certain people. One has to do with the reduction in chemicals and inability to function normally. I have seen the video on Depression which is very disturbing. I hope Sadhguru realise it and stop making comments about certain Mental Illnes without knowing the details about it

Partial knowledge is so dangerous..... Sadhguru has totally proven the point here.... Without proper knowledge ,you should refrain from commenting upon medical conditions .....

Namaskaram Anna/Akka. This is addressed to the volunteer that may be reading this. Please consider. making a video addressing OCD and those kind of issues. Pranam. 🙏

The most funny is that in what is called adhd most labelled as adhd do have extreme attention, just as he was describing with the speck in the book. It's not that adhd don't have attention, it's just too much attention on what is decided as "the wrong thing" then you are labeled as "deficient" , adhd should be called "extreme attention capability" instead of attention deficit. Yes maybe it causes certain issues with functioning in certain constrictive boxes of our society but really I think it's the surrounding judgement and pressure and misunderstandings that makes "adhd people" fill inadequate and that something is "wrong with them". Everyone as different brains functioning and all come with positive and negative sides and what is considered positive and negative just depend on your surroundings.

”The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it. - Sadhguru” Always adorable to listen to you master! 🙏

We are born with it. We cannot physically change this.

My ADHD is a gift. Coupled with being hard of hearing. Both from meningitis. I have a photographic memory, my IQ is higher than normal. I read body language. And my intuition is also stronger than normal. I am gifted. ❤️

When you talk about ADD and ADHD, you don't talk about finding passion. And, it's not mental, it's your physical affecting your mental.