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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.
You will meet striking claims about which genes or which brain region produce your temper. Interesting is not the same as established, and none of it should settle what you think of yourself.
Several of these ideas are still argued over by the people who study them, and they keep getting repeated in training rooms long after the caution…
Darwin once stood with his face against the glass in front of a viper, quite determined not to move, and jumped backwards anyway when it struck. Deciding in advance does not govern a startle.
Keep that in mind on the days you conclude that flinching or snapping proves something shameful about your character. The determination was real and…
What overpowered Darwin at that glass was not the snake. It was his picture of what the snake was about to do, and that is usually what overpowers you too.
Which is oddly hopeful. The thing driving the reaction is a reading of the situation, and readings can be slowed, questioned and sometimes corrected…
The part of you that detects threat is very old and does not take instructions in words. Telling yourself to calm down mostly demonstrates that.
It explains why sensible arguments made to yourself mid-surge do so little. What does reach it goes through the body and through attention: a longer…
You are built to react before you have thought about it. That is why the intention you held this morning loses so easily to the moment itself.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
This is worth hearing properly, because most people take the failure personally. The reaction runs first and the thinking arrives a beat later, often…