First thing first: Take a breath and please don't worry about this post, but do take note. (Sorry -- if that's the right word -- for the long, careful post. Skip to the fourth paragraph, if you wish.) Second: I am neither a Western Medical Doctor nor a Oriental Medical Doctor. (I am. however, a health professional; a person with a body, mind & energy; and someone who researches what he is curious about.) And I think this could be important for your health. In the powerful class about how to love ourselves before and after sleep time, Jim expressed an appropriate, healthy respect toward the idea of changing energy with a cold shower, or at least a 30 second finish to a warm one. He accurately said it may not be for everyone. The helpful sheet on this that I now use daily, before and after bed, is compact and doesn't present those cautions. Western research agrees with the benefits. Western and Eastern approaches both say we may need to do it carefully or even give it a pass. In the West there is data that for some people, a cold plunge/shower can be dangerous for their health (and for others, not). I'm more familiar with the Eastern view. There, it's said that intense coldness can cause serious health crashes (non-tech term), especially, again, for certain health profiles. This is especially true for people who have "Kidney Meridian" imbalances, especially "Kidney Yang Deficiency" (which I have). In this hallowed healthcare, "Kidney" is associated partially with those organs, plus bladder, and also with: the entire nervous system; rest, exhaustion and overwhelm; the emotion, fear; low back pain; knee pain; bones and teeth; inner quiet and its lack, hearing; urination; sexuality; our will; and our fundamental life energy. Considering that list, I though that, as a population, ADHDers might be more prone than neuro-typical folks to these imbalances. And "Oriental MD A.I." fully and avidly agrees, and offers the specific reasons. I hesitated to say this. My inner critic used to imagine that heeding my great aversion to an otherwise therapeutic intense chill suggests that I may just be resistant and I should just do it. (I mean, I've walked on fire!) And I wouldn't want to dissuade anyone unnecessarily from the potential benefits.

I have watched all the sessions so far on replay as the time is 2.am for me in Australia when it’s live. I’m concerned as I will be at work on a night shift in a hospital and unable to watch session 6 live. I really want to get the best out if this experience and gain so much insight into how I can move forward as I’ve learnt so much about myself already. What can I do about session 6 will I miss out on a lot of it if I can’t watch it live, is there a replay and what is excluded or can you only do it live? I hope someone can help it’s making me quite anxious the thought of not being able to complete the program when I’ve come so far. Thank you.

The voice doesn't acknowledge what you DID do. It only counts what didn't happen.this happens a lot im starting to notice

I'm asking because I have no clue to how I found my way to here. 🫣😅 Suddenly I was answering questions from an ai while hanging out on my couch. And then there was 'Skool' that I knew about from a 'movement and mobility' program. 🫠 Maybe I can find a clue through your path to ADHD HARMONY. 🤗 And also I'm curious to know your way because it actually happens to me a lot this, 'how did I actually end up here? 🤔'. 😁

Just did another section of my ADHD Awakening Assessment. Trying to catch up a bit. It was about what a voice in us tells us when we fail. I have a voice telling me I've "wasted my life" and "can't get the act together". Jim//the AI says that isn't actually mine. I'm not sure how to process that idea, that there are voices in my head that are not mine. I'd rather think about it like this: part of me has made an assessment about me, and is giving me feedback based on criteria that I've picked up over the years, maybe from early on, about what has most value, and what a successful life looks like. 'I've been reading from a script I didn't write'. Or using a form that other people have designed and promote and put onto us, that have more to do with what they think is important, instead of allowing me to consider what is important and valuable to me. So what is important and valuable to me? The kind of insights I'm getting in this group and with this challenge! Connecting with people who share similar struggles. That's important to me... not having to care about all the people and things that others believe they have to care about. Can I let them have their sets of values and priorities, and give myself permission, freely, to have and enjoy mine? Yes. I want to say 'yes' to this. So have I 'wasted my life?' Depends how one looks at it. Maybe I can use my own 'glasses' instead of someone else's. What does it mean to get my act together, for me? It means showing up... when and where I need to, and want to. Where it has meaning for me. To share things that I value, and consider interesting and helpful. So yes, maybe I can say now that those thoughts, about wasting my life and not getting my act together, aren't actually mine. In the sense that they don't belong to me, because they don't fit me. What I was helped to see, is that there are times I do show up. I have done meaningful and valuable things in my life, and will continue to. Maybe 'my act' is more 'together' than I have been able to see, so far. Maybe I am 'closer than I think.' I'm looking forward to continuing to show up here. sorry for the long post.