What should become clear is that if people with ADD are going to liberate their energies, if they are going to master time and focus and attention, they must first legitimize and perfect the pursuit of their own comfort. In other words, comfort is essential to get past the motivation to move away, to find the more productive motivation to move towa

Inner-child exercises are about nurturance. Whatever the situation that caused the personality fragment to form, and whatever the emotion trapped in that childlike fragment, the underlying task is to mobilize the part of the person that loves or has ever loved a child and to bring that part into contact with the part that is needlessly suffering.

As the left brain develops, it creates a whole new spectrum of selves — or, rather, it alters all the existing selves, intertwining itself with all the different combinations of the moving, feeling, and sensing selves that were already being integrated through the right brain. It adds self-consciousness. It adds planning. It adds goals.

In unreliable folks, the right-brain doing self long ago learned to dismiss the left brain as an alarmist drill sergeant who’ll work them both until they drop if allowed. The planner and the doer don’t get along, and the inner self feels no obligation to heed carelessly worded instructions about which it has not even been consulted.

The fact that the above trance sequences each contain four steps is key. The left brain can process only three items at a time. What we are essentially doing in these exercises is occupying the left brain with three tasks (breathing, descending the stairs, and sensing the life force in the first example) so that when we add the fourth step, we auto

Few things contribute to the sense of impotence and frustration in people with ADD more than the gap that can exist between their understanding of things and their ability to consistently act upon that understanding.

Basically, what I learned from Dr. Ahsen is that you have to see yourself resolving your problems with your parents, and you have to see your parents resolving their problems with themselves and with each other, even if these resolutions never occurred or never could have occurred in real life. You need to do this in order to free your nervous syst

Once we realized that E.’s father needed to actively approve of E.’s efforts, the exercises went very smoothly. It was easy to get the three of them (dad, little E., and E.) together and to ask dad for love and help, which dad willingly gave. E. was then able to wrap up his practice. E. has now retired from the court job, he takes Ritalin occasiona

As it turns out, inner selves come in three main types — inner children, inner parents, and inner guides/alter egos.