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My therapist recommended me to find an activity that requires all my focus to allow me to ground my mind and gain awareness. I am already doing meditation and mindfulness, this is more an activity like crochet or chess.
I would like the HN community if you have any ideas for such activities and if you have had similar experiences.
- Sim racing with my Moza setup - Trail running - Mountainbike riding on not too easy terrain
All these activities does the same thing, forces my brain to focus here and now and take time-critical micro-decisions.
Other activities that puts me in the same frame of mind would probably work too. For example climbing worked for me when I did that, and even working through a large set of pretty easy maths exercises worked while I was more focused on maths in my life.
In between the most focused parts of these activities I often gain deeper insights and feel grounded.
Good luck finding what works for you!
If you have a club near you, gliding is a relatively cheap hobby.
Otherwise sudoku or crosswords can be fun and low barrier to entry
My wife is not as much a fan of this...
Canadian chess grandmaster Eric Hansen used chess to help with his ADHD as a child.
I just played in my browser, but think it would be much much more satisfying with a physical console like Brick Game[1] (which I had when I was a kid).
(This was apparently a ripoff of Tetris, but I think I'd enjoy the sense of nostalgia.)
[0] - https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-pos...