Use the Manage ADHD Script to Improve Clients' Productivity at Work or School

Although it has received a lot of media attention, attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is still misunderstood - even, often, by the very people who have it. Many sufferers think of themselves as dumb, lazy, or unable to "be normal," and struggle to accept that they have a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder.

The Manage ADHD Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients understand, accept, and thrive within their diagnosis.

An extended pre-talk helps clients reassess what an ADHD diagnosis means. Clients are reassured that they are not undisciplined or lacking in intelligence, but are just built differently than other people.

To underline this point, a study from Northwestern University in the USA is referenced.¹ The study shows that between two tribes in Kenya - one nomadic, hunter-gatherer society and one with primitive agriculture practices - individuals with a gene strongly linked to ADHD fared differently. In the pastoral tribe they were less well nourished, but in the nomadic group they flourished, suggesting that ADHD may have been helpful in early human societies.

The client is further convinced of the hidden benefits of ADHD by a reference to Thom Hartmann's book Attention Deficit Disorder - A Different Perception, which posits that many sports figures, entertainers, and entrepreneurs may have been successful because of their ability to harness the strengths of ADHD and use them to their advantage. They are reassured that this session will help them realize some of those same benefits.

Now, an extended induction leads the client to focus on a single spot in the room and bring all of their attention to it. They are guided to "zoom in" on the spot and hold it in a deep focus. As the client sharpens their focus, they are encouraged to take deep breaths and feel a heaviness in their eyelids that pulls them into a deeply relaxed state.

While the client slips further into relaxation, embedded commands instruct them to feel what it's like to "become completely absorbed" in something they love, while the rest of the world drifts out of perception. In this way, they are prepared to accept the subsequent hypnotic suggestions to "instinctively learn" and "make lasting, positive changes."

The client is now led to remember what it's like to feel truly cared for, and also what it is like to provide that same depth of care for a friend. They are guided to fully experience themselves caring deeply for someone who is dealing with hardship with kindness and warmth.

With that experience front of mind, the client is reminded of times when they may have suffered or felt frustrated as a result of their ADHD, and led to observe their younger self struggling with those feelings. They are guided to draw on that hypnotic experience of caring for a friend, and apply it to themselves: to pass on to their younger self the same warmth, kindness, and encouragement they would extend to a friend.

The script explores how the client might reframe the challenges of ADHD to that younger self, helping them to fully accept and internalize the concept of ADHD not as a disability, but as a "different configuration" that is advantageous in certain contexts, but makes other areas of life immensely challenging. Ultimately they are encouraged to really relax with being who they are, like a tree "growing completely unselfconsciously, true to its nature."

Now, the client is asked to picture a future version of themselves who has already found ways to manage their ADHD and channel their strengths. A detailed exploration of what that might look like, including better self-care, more exercise, and a new attitude of self-care and self-encouragement, helps to reinforce this new approach.

The client is guided to flesh out this picture of their future self by picturing themselves being warm and patient towards themselves, easing into tasks and fully focusing on them, and using their strengths in new and positive ways.

As the picture grows clearer, the client is encouraged to feel themselves absorbing these ideals and bringing them back into the present, and updating their understanding of themselves to someone who has valuable and effective ways to not just manage their condition, but use it to their advantage.

Add the Manage ADHD Hypnosis Script to your script library today.

Manage ADHD is also available as an MP3 download.

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1. https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-8-173