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Your body
You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.
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3 practicesHow long you have · Twenty minutes
Approach · Body based
When · Under stress
Some of what you are carrying has not finished happening. Movement that soothes rather than pushes tends to suit that better than anything strenuous.
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