ADHD is a kind of “loss of control over your attention”.

Meditation is “getting control over your attention”.

So you see the connection there.

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    I meditate to techno and often while busy with a dumb hand task. Meditation isn’t the same for everyone and the occasional Ohm or dead silence might not be enough for you.

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      I think that I am referring to something different from what you are referring to.

      What I am referring to is like physical exercise, except with attention.

      The term “meditation” has become unspecific and fuzzy in its general usage.

      I am using it in the way that the Buddhists and Raja Yogis use it.

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        I don’t think we’re talking about different things. I achieve a peaceful state of serenity when emerged in a chaos that distracts the majority of my chaotic energy - then I can focus and indulge in a peaceful calm.

        We’re going to the same place but taking different roads - neither is better, but some roads are easier for different people to walk.

        There is no single right way to meditate.

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          No really, we’re talking about something different.

          In this meditation that I’m referring to, there is peace, but that is only one facet. There is also control and understanding of attention. That’s central.