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.

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Touch and bodywork Five minutes Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 3

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 1

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 34 Both of us together 6 Involves someone else 3

Theme · Touch and bodywork

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 Moving your body 8 Bringing the future closer 8 Rebuilding trust 8 Your sense of time 8 Your nervous system 8 Exercise, food and other supports 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Knowing your partner 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Treatment and medication 7 What worry does 7 Remembering to do it 6 Breaking the worry loop 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 The moment before you snap 4 When you use something to cope 4 Structure and routine 4 Shared spiritual life 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Tolerate distress 3 Growing empathy 3 Food, caffeine and fuel 3 Touch and bodywork 3 Rituals of connection 3 Shame 2 Being seen and judged 2 Treatment and medication 2 Get started 2 Panic and the body 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Shame and stigma 2 Grounding and settling 2 The fear underneath anger 1 Rest and pacing 1 Practising under provocation 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Obsessions and compulsions 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 Repair after rupture 1

You rarely need the whole tour. Pick the one place the tension actually lives for this person today, and work there.

A real session has no room for a long sequence and no need of one. Watch where the holding shows itself: a jaw that never rests, shoulders up near…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 12:93

Keep offering these small practices and people start asking for them. When someone requests one by name, something has changed about who is running their regulation.

Responses also speed up with repetition, so what needed ten minutes in the first month can take two later on. Name that shift out loud when it…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 48:29

If pain is the thing you live with, start the session with the stroking sequence rather than the conversation. Arms, forehead, crown, cheeks, slowly.

It does two jobs in one go: gentle wide contact takes some edge off the pain, and it brings a person out of guarded alertness into being able to…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 12:93

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.