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ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus

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*The most effective treatment for ADHD is a 17min Meditation *

Your visual system has two modes of processing - highly focused soda straw view and panoramic vision, which can be trained up. Panoramic vision accessed through open monitoring and conscious dilating of gaze, enhances ability to attend to and recognize multiple targets. A simple practice of reducing visual information and focusing on interoception through a 17-minute meditation significantly reduces the number of attentional blinks in a near-permanent way, improving focus without additional training. This practice can potentially offset age-related cognitive decline and rewire the brain to attend better.

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