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Re: Attention Dialed Into a Higher Dimension

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I don’t know, Larynxa tends to post in ways that leave me having to read her posts in doses instead of at once. We know she(?) has ADD so it’s not about post length. We ADDers can be overly verbose when we want to. :) Besides, I am pretty sure from reading the first little bit that the majority of SimplyStella’s post was copy and pasted.

Now, I don’t want everyone to get a bad impression of paganism based on this weirdo. Even some of my more over the rainbow friends would be shaking their heads at this drivel. There are portions of Wicca that would indeed be of benefit to a person with ADD, I can say this from experience. For example meditation has been shown to be highly effective for someone with ADD. I’ve found that grounding and centering, kissing cousins of meditation, can be of great help whenever I am finding myself to be too wound up or overstimulated.

Also there are portions of the pagan belief system that are useful to someone with ADD. For example, the main rule is “Harm none, do what ye will.” In other words, pay attention to the consequences of your actions and try to make sure those consequences are good. Harm none includes not harming yourself so that means those of us to ignore our own needs for the sake of others to the point that we are hurting ourselves (I can’t sleep yet, I have to make sure I have seven dozen cupcakes for my daughters bake sale tomorrow! I know I haven’t sleep a full night in weeks but this is just one more time!) are breaking this rule as well. And those of us who are too inhibited by years of being told how bad we are whenever we are trying to have fun can use this rule as a way of giving ourselves permission to relax or to be selfish for once and have fun.

Wicca is also a religion belief system that focuses on personal action. It’s not about praying that God will give you what you want and God will make it happen. You can pray to God all you want for a job but until you actually look for openings or submit applications you are going to stay unemployed. It is the act itself that will bring you closer to your goal, along with the belief that your actions will bring you what you want. We ADDers can hope we’ll get organized all we want but until we actually try out some organizational systems will we actually achieve that goal. And if we believe that we’ll find one then we are more likely to find a system that works for our own personal needs.

The crystal stuff – just ignore that kind of thing. But don’t dismiss the religion as something harmful. There is nothing wrong with spirituality and Paganism is really as good a system as any. *climbs off soap box*

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