Healing ADD : Simple Exercises That Will Change Your Daily Life

This book is an amazing self-improvement resource; only rarely does a book impress me, but... I'm impressed!Hartmann has an extremely engaging writing style, and displays great deftness in walking a very narrow path; most books gravitate toward either theories that are interesting but engender no action, or strident calls to action that would do a nagging parent proud.Instead, his phrases twist, and turn, and *slide* through that narrow gap, right past all sorts of carefully-developed defenses, and inspire the amused reader to actually TRY some of the exercises he suggests. For some of us, believe me, that's no small task! As an added bonus, this book is also the best USEFUL quick-and-dirty introduction to NLP I've seen... I've toyed with experimenting with my internal programming before, and even seen some useful results when guided by a friend that's proficient in it, but Hartmann's descriptions and exercises immediately made sense and intrigued me.An example - he talked of how most of us have a spatial representation of time, and picture the future extending in one direction and the past in another. Those with a less-than-functional internal sense of time have usually shifted them to a less-than-useful location and sure enough, I found my own representation to be within reason but somewhat skewed. After trying the associated mental exercise in the book, I suddenly found myself getting up, two mornings in succession, the *first* time my alarm went off - usually I'd hit "snooze" for at least an hour. As if that weren't enough, on the third day my alarm clock failed... the outlet was bad, and the alarm didn't go off. I STILL woke up at the appropriate time. This is fascinating stuff; next I'm going to play with resetting some old anchors and creating some new ones.Whether you consider yourself to have ADD, consider yourself not to, or think it's just a negative label created to minimize people who shake things up a bit, this book is worth a read. Doubly so if you're an iNtuitive Perceiving personality type; it's a quick, entertaining, and very likely useful read... well worth a try in my book!

purchased this for a friend due to her grandson and son being diagnosed with ADHD. she did not want to read the material thinking that she knows how to handle her small grandson. i did read a chapter and it is very informative in how to discipline and raise a child with ADHD.

Thom Hartmann does an excellent job discussing this "disorder." These simple exercises are as advertised and have been very useful to me. As an individual diagnosed with ADD at an early age, this book makes anyone who has been diagnosed "feel at home." Hartmann eligantly reframes ADD in a new and power light that should make any ADDer feel proud and confident. I not only suggest this book to any who has ADD/ADHD but to everyone. I think the general public should know what this diagnose is really about. No more myths or false claims.A must read!

It's not the book I'd hope for. Well written by Thom Hartmann. It might be a perfect book for you or someone with ADHD.

Have not read the book myself but have great respect for thom Hartman. I have heard him speak about the Hunter School and the things they teach there. I only wish my friend's child was not too old to attend.

Great book, going through it, bending the corners of important pages, I have about half the pages bent! It is one of the best books of explaining the ADD brain and gives REAL ideas. Small, concise and excellent.

It's a great book. I only finished half, but I'm going back over many parts of it.

I gave this book to my son as a reference for his son

Condition - used, fine for my purposes. Easy to read and informative. Split into chapters. Exercises to try out. Worth buying.