Forget about ADD, you're just as capable as anyone else.... Be more confident in yourself, and you'll succeed. If your first reaction is "it's difficult because I have ADD," of course you'll fail... Not because you have ADD, but because you decided that you would fail. Think positively, "it CAN happen to me, I CAN do it" ; there's more to all this than techniques, you need to remove the barriers you've set yourself before you can go through "natural" barriers...
I have the crappiest attention span, I'll be writing something and the next minute I'll be standing up, looking out the window, wondering when I got up from my chair and why I stopped writing... I always forget what I'm doing, it even happens when I'm speaking, I sometimes feel like a senile old man in a 22 year old's body.. I would probably get diagnosed with ADD if I asked a doctor, yet I was able to have 12 OBEs in less than a year... It's not huge, but it's still something.
Just view it like this: everyone has ADD, it's just that some people manage to hide it better than others! It would be worrisome if our mind didn't switch focus so often... What if you're focusing on the TV and don't ever lose focus? Will you stay in front of the TV for 20 hours straight? Of course not, your mind has to wander from time to time, to check on things around you, to see if you're feeling comfortable, if you need to eat or go to the bathroom, if there's something you should be doing, etc... It's impossible to go against this, and that's why meditation is tricky...
The basic premise is that you need to empty your mind... But it's impossible to think of nothing... So you focus on one thing and pretend it's the only thing that exists... Take your breathing, your heartbeat, the ringing in your ears, etc.. The first few times you'll try it, you won't be able to focus for more than 3 seconds, and that's perfectly normal, but as you practice and practice, that timeframe will increase, and that's when you'll start making progress.
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