Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

1 practice

Breathing Five minutes Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 1 Someone I care about 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 18 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Breathing

Medication and how it works 43 The cost of avoiding 15 Screens and attention 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 10 Exercise, food and other supports 8 Moving your body 8 Rebuilding trust 8 Bringing the future closer 8 Your sense of time 8 Your nervous system 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Knowing your partner 7 What worry does 7 Treatment and medication 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Breaking the worry loop 6 Remembering to do it 6 When everything feels flat 5 Choosing your response 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Cool the body first 5 Emotions as signals 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 Feelings and focus 5 Listening and understanding 5 Structure and routine 4 The moment before you snap 4 When you use something to cope 4 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Shared spiritual life 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Growing empathy 3 Food, caffeine and fuel 3 Tolerate distress 3 Touch and bodywork 3 Rituals of connection 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Being seen and judged 2 Panic and the body 2 Get started 2 Grounding and settling 2 Treatment and medication 2 Shame 2 Shame and stigma 2 The fear underneath anger 1 Repair after rupture 1 Rest and pacing 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Living with uncertainty 1 When you go numb 1 Affection and touch 1 What you are actually defending 1 Making it stick 1 Help someone grieving 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Breathing 1 Ask and say no well 1 Practising under provocation 1

A child cannot watch their own breathing, so give them something to watch instead. Bubbles through a wand show the out breath as it happens: too hard and it bursts, too weak and nothing comes.

Smelling a flower and then blowing it out gives each half of the breath a picture. The bubble wand is better still, because it answers back straight…

Five minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 81:18

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