Study Drugs, an Empath’s Perspective

Although study drugs are in the news now, it’s hard to find photos of kids taking them. Popular though Adderall and Ritalin are in the college culture, students know they could get in trouble legally by going public. Without photos, I can’t do Aura Reading or Empath Merges to tell directly what’s going on with study drugs, apart from reading about the well documented side effects.

But I do have perspective based on Aura Reading and my work with Empath Empowerment (training naturally talented Empaths to become Skilled Empaths).

When are researchers, parents, or students themselves going to connect the dots? Multi-tasking and self-induced attention deficit — hello!!!!! Our kids are training themselves to be unable to study without music, to watch TV without texting, to take a simple walk down the street without gabbing into the cell “I’m here. Where are you?”

If your first act on waking is to grab your cell, did you ever ask “Why?” How far into your day do you go before giving one moment of conscious attention to your physical body?

Our Twittering population doesn’t have to go all twitter-pated. We just need to stop the constant self-distraction.

When I train natural empaths to become skilled empaths, the process includes paying attention to the whole self, one chunk at a time. Everyone, empath or non-empath, was born with a variety of faculties for paying attention: Intellect, Emotions, Physical Body, Social Way of Being in the Environment, etc.

What happens as soon as someone starts multi-tasking? You’re coming from your intellect, only your intellect. Maybe you think you’re paying attention to the feelings in a love song as you do the laundry. Or you figure you’re boosting your workout by reading dieting tips in a magazine.

Nope, you’re having ideas about emotions or thoughts about taking better care of your body. Feeling feelings is different.  Physical self-awareness is not all in your head. Whenever you multi-task, regardless of what you are doing, only one part of you is in charge. It’s your intellect, Silly.

That intellect can get just plain tired. It also makes a poor substitute for your emotions or physical self-awareness. Some multi-tasking is inevitable, though it’s never as efficient as we pretend to ourselves. But multi-tasking as a way of life? If you don’t want to become a slave to uppers, reconsider.

It’s tough enough being a college kid without self-inflicted scatter brains. I’d like to see a scientific study where the main treatment for study problems consisted of my turn-off techniques as described in “Empowered by Empathy.” Plus the little matter of decreeing, “No multi-tasking. Period.”

LINKS

Multi-tasking is a major theme in my novel for empaths, sold in Kindle form as An Empath Among the Righteous and available as a trade paperback with the title The Roar of the Huntids. 

The how-to for empaths, Empowered by Empathy, is available 24-7 at 800-345-6665. Or use our Magic Ordering for Empaths Link. Use these same phone and click resources to order the novel for empaths and the audiobook edition of Empowered by Empathy. You may sample it here for free. And you may also order it as an ebook, courtesy of Kindle, with this Empath Express Link to Amazon.com.