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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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Grounding and settling Body based Twenty minutes Clear all

Theme · Grounding and settling

Your nervous system 14 Moving your body 6 Breathing 5 Touch and bodywork 4 Grounding and settling 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 26 Five minutes 25 Twenty minutes 2

Approach · Body based

Mindfulness 4 Body based 2

Left, right, left, right. Walking, swimming, drumming and rowing all give the body the same steady side to side rhythm that the seated techniques are copying.

If tapping your own shoulders feels odd, or you would rather not do anything that looks like a technique, go for a walk instead and let the rhythm do…

Twenty minutesGrounding and settlingBody basedQur’an 20:53

Your settling kit should cost nothing. Tea you already buy, a photo already on your phone, an old jumper, a smooth stone, a puzzle that takes your whole attention.

Anything you have to buy first becomes a reason not to start, and for anyone short of money it can add a layer of shame to the thing that was meant…

Twenty minutesGrounding and settlingBody basedQur’an 16:80