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Adapted Mindfulness

Practices by rung, for autistic and ADHD adults.

Do not suppress the stim in order to practice.

Suppression during practice is masking, and a practice running on masking produces depletion that gets read as spiritual failure. The stim is not interference with the object. It can be the object.

RUNG 1

Motor Pressure, discharge it

Practices

  • Heavy resistance. Something that takes real effort to move.
  • Wall press with both palms, real effort.
  • A heavy load carried up the stairs.
  • Chew. Chewable jewellery or a bite-valve bottle, kept on you rather than in a drawer.
  • Hard rhythm. Loud is fine.
RUNG 2

Elevated, occupy it

Practices

  • Strong texture. A ridged object or Velcro square kept where the hand already goes, or textured tape on the underside of the desk.
  • Firm resistance. Therapy putty, a stress ball dense enough to fight back, or a hand grip strengthener.
  • Steady rhythm.
  • Hard movement before a conversation starts.
  • Enough input to hold the hands without asking anything of the attention.
RUNG 3

Baseline, quiet and rhythmic

Practices

  • Low-key, one-handed, unremarkable.
  • At baseline the tool should be close to invisible. You are not managing a state; you are practising.
RUNG 4

Depleted, supply what is missing

Practices

  • Weight. Warmth. Slow rocking. Deep pressure.
  • Nothing that requires you to initiate repeatedly.
  • If the pull is to scroll until you go flat, weight and warmth do that job without the pull.
RUNG 5

Shutdown, nothing that asks

Practices

  • Weight, warmth, dark, and whatever your body is already doing.
  • Do not introduce a new object at Rung 5.

Mx. Love C. Dialogos, LMFT (they/them)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist  ·  Buddhist Chaplain

Love Psychotherapy, LLC  ·  lovepsychotherapy.com

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