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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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464 practices
Theme
Your nervous system 120Grounding and settling 71Moving your body 71Touch and bodywork 65Food, caffeine and fuel 59Breathing 35Feeling from the inside 25Posture and how you carry yourself 13Rest and pacing 5
How long you have
A minute 106Five minutes 249Twenty minutes 75Longer 34
Approach
Body based 283Medical and treatment 144Mindfulness 32ADHD skills 5
When
Any ordinary day 320Under stress 113Coming and going 13In a change 12After a row 4When apart 2

The screen tells you nothing and asks you nothing. The plane simply flies better or worse, and the adjusting happens on its own.

That suits people who cannot easily put what they feel into words, which includes a great many children and a great many adults after trauma. There…

LongerYour nervous systemMedical and treatmentQur’an 16:78

Some people end up fully flipped, awake until three in the morning and unable to surface until evening. That is genuinely hard to reset, and not for want of trying.

Ordinary sleep advice is not built for this. What tends to be needed is help with timing: light at the right hour, a plan to move the whole cycle in…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 30:23

Trauma sleeplessness usually has two layers: night itself carries meaning, and the body's clock has moved. Both need attention.

If bad things happened at night, lying in the dark listening to every sound is not a bad habit, it is vigilance doing its job. Sleep advice alone…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 39:42

When someone finally reaches somewhere safe, do not be surprised if they fall apart rather than bloom. Stay close through that part.

People who have lived on high alert often start grieving once the danger stops, and it can look like going backwards: more tears, more fear about the…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 106:4