Hi guys,
I've been using an app called Headspace for meditation, and it has been really good.  

I just achieved a milestone of meditating for 10 days in a row!  

![10 days of meditation.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXQ173JwvA1bSTmg13JWASuRkhPi2crmuCcxn31ysfp2J/10%20days%20of%20meditation.png)

The headspace app includes guided meditations and it is a lot better than the last time I tried to meditate before discovering this app. 

I used to think meditation meant not thinking, and that is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for me.  I wanted to do well at it way back when I last tried (we're talking high school here), but just trying not to think was excruiatingly hard for me.  

However, that's not how the headspace meditations work.  They are guided meditations and they are all about focus and will tell you to focus on your breathing or focus on how your body feels and they also are about learning to notice and acknowledge thoughts and feelings without responding to them.  It is not about not thinking.  That's not to say it isn't hard - focusing on one thing is not easy for anyone, and in the case of people with ADHD like me, that is literally one of our struggles - but that's okay.  It's not supposed to be too easy or too hard, and it honestly seems to help, which is the main thing.  I assume it is not just headspace, but any guided meditations would be better than my previous understanding of meditation being "try not to think", but Headspace is serving me well so far, to the point I got a proper subscription so I could unlock more meditations.  

I have done more than 10 days of meditation, but I've been more consistent with it this year and this is the first time I have meditated for 10 days in a row.  I'm not entirely sure of its effectiveness yet, as it is early days, but it appears to be helping me since I have started being more consistent with it, so I'm excited to see how much I will benefit from meditation, and headspace, in the foreseeable future.  

I call achieving 10 days in a row of meditating a win!  If you have anything you are proud of you want to share, please share it below!

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