Pay Attention to Your (ADHD) Attention with Dr. Amishi Jha

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn about our attention from a neuroscientist, shall we? Amishi Jha, Ph.D, is here to discuss her new book, Peak Mind, in which she explains what attention is, the types of attention, and what happens when we pay attention to our attention. SPOILER ALERT: Attention is trainable. Yes, research conducted by Dr. Jha and her colleagues proves that even adults with ADHD see improvements in their attention when they implement Dr. Jha's mindfulness training techniques. Listen to find out more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:39.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast episode number 140.
0:47.0	I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I am ready to roll.
0:51.0	What is up? What is up? You are going to lose your mind when I tell you all about our guest today, so sit back and get ready.
1:00.0	Dr Amishie Jha is a neuroscientist who studies attention and how to train it.
1:07.0	That's right. You heard me. We're going to talk about what attention is and how it can be trained and improved.
1:15.0	If you're an adult with ADHD listening to this podcast, and obviously I'm assuming you are, I want you to hear me loud and clear.
1:24.0	Dr Jha and her team have conducted studies on adults with ADHD and those studies have revealed that mindfulness training absolutely can improve attention.
1:34.0	And the best part about it, listen up, it only takes about 12 minutes a day.
1:39.0	Now, I first heard Dr Jha's brilliance on another podcast, and then I read her book.
1:46.0	Okay, most of the book. I read most of the book. It's called Peak Mind.
1:51.0	And I want to really encourage you to multitask right now and go find Peak Mind on Amazon right now.
1:58.0	Click that by button because I'm telling you. It was absolutely life changing for me, and it will also inform a lot of the work that I will be doing
2:08.0	with my ADHD clients moving forward. So it was a very impactful book for me, and I think it will be for you too.
2:17.0	I loved every second of my conversation with Dr Jha. She is fun and funny. She's a mom of two.
2:24.0	She lived in Philly for 10 years, so we found a lot of common ground.
2:28.0	Let me tell you all about her, and then we're going to get rolling.
2:32.0	Dr Amishijha is a neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at the University of Miami.
2:38.0	She's also the director of contemplative neuroscience for the mindfulness research and practice initiative, which she co-founded in 2010.
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