This is a fantastic comment. Not necessarily because it’s universally true, but because it highlights variance in lived experience. There is a truth, but not the truth.
It highlights the reality that your body sends a demand for action, but it diminishes and oversimplifies the great challenge, the true mountain, of consciously mapping a instinctive solution, to a true need, to an optimal course of action to meet the need.
I want chips? Am I hungry? Is my blood sugar low? Am I experiencing an acute deficiency of saturated fats? Are my electrolytes imbalanced? Although it’s likely chips will solve it, there are several distinct underlying issues your body says chips are the solution. “Belly not full” is a gross oversimplification of what the issue may be, and without a full comprehension of the specific nature of the desire for chips, it’s possible and likely an attempt to outsmart yourself will end in failure.
And to be honest… “chips” is probably by a large margin the least complex. A cigarette. An energy drink. Alcohol. The depth of confusion of root cause on the alchemy your subconscious has been formulating for decades of trial and error, behind your back?
When Karen says to listen to your body, they are saying one thing. It is not the thing that ADHD people need to hear. They are not the same thing. That is OPs point, and they are right. The mechanics are fundamentally different. It isn’t wrong to highlight that Karen’s communicative intention is flatly based on a distinct experience which is not directly applicable in a meaningful way.
You’re saying “Listen to your body… and know that it is giving you a solution rather than telling you a problem, your goal is to bridge that gap”.
Karen isn’t false. OP isn’t false. You aren’t false. You’re all just expressing lived experience.
“Listen to your body” and “Listen to your brain” are two very different things. Your body isn’t going “hmm, we’re a bit low on salt, EAT CHIPS NOW”, it’s just reporting low sodium levels to your brain. It’s your brain taking that signal, interpreting it through the lens of your experiences and how you’ve trained it to think, and making the decision that you should seek out and devour chips. If you had never tried chips, your brain would not have that association, and would come up with a different approach to fixing your sodium levels.
That’s the difference between listening to your brain, which is screaming for the quick fix of junk food, and promising itself dopamine as a reward, and listening to your body so you can make a conscious decision on how to approach the situation. It’s not necessarily easy, and it takes practice, but it is possible.
This is a fantastic comment. Not necessarily because it’s universally true, but because it highlights variance in lived experience. There is a truth, but not the truth.
It highlights the reality that your body sends a demand for action, but it diminishes and oversimplifies the great challenge, the true mountain, of consciously mapping a instinctive solution, to a true need, to an optimal course of action to meet the need.
I want chips? Am I hungry? Is my blood sugar low? Am I experiencing an acute deficiency of saturated fats? Are my electrolytes imbalanced? Although it’s likely chips will solve it, there are several distinct underlying issues your body says chips are the solution. “Belly not full” is a gross oversimplification of what the issue may be, and without a full comprehension of the specific nature of the desire for chips, it’s possible and likely an attempt to outsmart yourself will end in failure.
And to be honest… “chips” is probably by a large margin the least complex. A cigarette. An energy drink. Alcohol. The depth of confusion of root cause on the alchemy your subconscious has been formulating for decades of trial and error, behind your back?
When Karen says to listen to your body, they are saying one thing. It is not the thing that ADHD people need to hear. They are not the same thing. That is OPs point, and they are right. The mechanics are fundamentally different. It isn’t wrong to highlight that Karen’s communicative intention is flatly based on a distinct experience which is not directly applicable in a meaningful way.
You’re saying “Listen to your body… and know that it is giving you a solution rather than telling you a problem, your goal is to bridge that gap”.
Karen isn’t false. OP isn’t false. You aren’t false. You’re all just expressing lived experience.
“Listen to your body” and “Listen to your brain” are two very different things. Your body isn’t going “hmm, we’re a bit low on salt, EAT CHIPS NOW”, it’s just reporting low sodium levels to your brain. It’s your brain taking that signal, interpreting it through the lens of your experiences and how you’ve trained it to think, and making the decision that you should seek out and devour chips. If you had never tried chips, your brain would not have that association, and would come up with a different approach to fixing your sodium levels.
That’s the difference between listening to your brain, which is screaming for the quick fix of junk food, and promising itself dopamine as a reward, and listening to your body so you can make a conscious decision on how to approach the situation. It’s not necessarily easy, and it takes practice, but it is possible.