/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11869572
Get good, consistent sleep. Quit caffeine and reduce the amount of time you spend looking at a screen. Exercise at least every other day. Report back in 3 months.

>>11869572
See a psychiatrist about ADHD

>>11869572
What's your sleep like?
What's your diet like?
What's your physical activity like?
What medications/drugs have you taken in the past?

>>11869573
I already do good sleep though.
Yeah, I should reduce the time in front of a fucking screen. What you mean for exercise?

>>11869600
It's not ADHD, as I wrote, I don't have any problem getting good grades at University.

>>11869609
My sleep is good.
My diet should be normal, sometimes I eat junk food but not so often.
My physical activity is null. But I'm not fat.
I haven't taken any particulary drugs/medications in past.

>>11869660
Mild aerobic exercise is good for your brain. Even walking continuously for 30 minutes to an hour a few times a week can make a difference in how you feel.

>>11869672
I don't know if this is relevant, but I walk quiet often when I'm at home, I walk around the house randomly, I think it's something that happens in automatic to alleviate stress.
Does it help?

>>11869679
I know exactly what you mean. But the real benefit comes from uninterrupted walking for at least 30 minutes. Being outside is a plus.

>>11869660
Would you say you're a generally organised person?

20M here.. Was in your seat, now out of it completely.
First off,
>I tried meditation, but I can't be constant, so it's useless.
This is completely wrong. In fact, when you meditate and "feel" that it is completely useless, that is when it's most beneficial. So what is the error here? Trusting the archaic reward module of your brain, the same part that wants you to drink alcohol and eat sugar while watching netflix rather than read, exercise and meditate.
The meditation sessions where every second has been a gruesome fight but despite that I continue for 3 hours, those have been the most beneficial by far and you also need it the most in that state. Even 2 minutes is a victory.
In fact, paying attention to that feeling of resistance in itself is a fantastic meditation.
Even when learning, and you run into obstacles, pay attention to that resistance feeling because that is so good for your soul, and when you notice it enough it could even dissipate.

I never got sleep. I felt guilty about going to bed before being done with what I needed to do, just go to bed early, and wake up naturally without an alarm. All parts of you will thank you for doing so. Get your sleep. Period. If I can't fall asleep, I'll make a challenge out of staying completely still until I do so.

It's also important to feel loved. It sounds very unrelated, but if you are emotionally starved that defiles the core of the perception of your reality. Eventually, you can rely on yourself to love yourself, as in not seek external affirmation, and that will be very good for those around you and yourself.

Quit alcohol completely. No excuses.
Quit all sugar completely. No excuses. Fruit still allowed.

Get exercise often, the longer the better. I often take long swims at the lake, or long jogs at the track. I don't think of anything while exercising, be completely in the body, your nervous system will learn quicker. Exercise pays dividends for mental health and cognitive performance. Awesome dreams too.

By the way, forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for everything. All failures, vices, bad choices, bad behaviors, just be willing to forgive yourself for EVERYTHING. You have to be able to drop everything that says "don't drop meeeee don't you do it"

>>11869572
Do you drink a lot?

>>11869710
No.

>>11869863
No.

>>11869756
How have you learned to meditate?

Drop the weed

>>11869958
I don't smoke weed though

>>11869955
not him but the simplest technique i know is to sit
and observe your breathing
your mind will run off in weird tangents
when you notice this return to breathing
do not stifle thoughts but dont feed them either
just acknowledge, and return to breathing

>>11869955
Mostly I've been focusing on my breath. Which is vipassana. For example, you can focus on your belly rising and falling. Your chest. The air back and forth on the back of your throat. Your nasal passages. Your upperlip. It's a playground.

You can't learn by reading. You have to be doing. Strive to notice and remove. You want to reach being "nothing". In the beginning, you might not even be able to pay attention to what's in front of you visually, if you meditate with open eyes. When you've come far, you'll notice "background radiation" in your sense of reality, that has been with you for many years and defined patterns of your actions and the sense of your identity, and that will dissipate for longer and longer periods once you start noticing deep things like that, that are low threshold and hidden like 0.0002 of all your input. You might notice masculine and feminine energies eventually, which should also dissipate. But it should be underscored that you are not trying to reach things, any will for results is also something to be noticed and let go of. These discoveries that people talk about is what bubbles up automatically once everything else has been settled. Don't think about what bubbles up even if it feels significant, you can think later when you're not meditating. You just want to settle ALL movement of your sense of reality to nothingness

I'm being a bit idealistic since myself having been at your stage and reading this post then, would be unable to recall or follow an instruction for a longer timeperiod, too many distractions. Someone who helped A LOT with direction was Mooji, who is filled with love for everyone:
https://youtu.be/xRlaJApiTe8

Trying to learn meditation by using the mind and reading about it, learning about it, it's the far opposite since a large part of the goal is complete cessation of the mind. Beyond the breath, notice heat, tiredness, excitedness, laughing, coldness, dryness, all states and sensations you feel daily

>>11870102
That wasn't a video from his channel, here
https://www.youtube.com/user/Moojiji

>>11869660
>I already do good sleep though.
Would you say you wake up feeling rested? If you were being brutally honest.