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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6 practices

Moving your body A minute On my own Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 6 Five minutes 16 Twenty minutes 17 Longer 9

Who it is written for

A practitioner 6 Someone I care about 6 Me 6

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 4 Getting ready for something 1 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 6 Involves someone else 3

Theme · Moving your body

The moment before you snap 34 Choosing your response 34 Staying regulated in conflict 32 Cool the body first 29 What anger actually is 24 Your nervous system 24 Grounding and settling 21 The fear underneath anger 20 Get started 19 Bringing the future closer 18 Medication and how it works 16 Equanimity and perspective 14 Your sense of time 14 Fondness and admiration 13 Answering bids 13 Treatment and medication 13 Making it stick 12 Structure and routine 12 Systems for daily life 12 Feelings and focus 11 Practising under provocation 11 Touch and bodywork 11 Growing empathy 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 9 Knowing your partner 9 What ADHD actually is 8 Exercise, food and other supports 8 Gratitude 7 Tolerate distress 7 Remembering to do it 7 Screens and attention 6 When everything feels flat 6 Moving your body 6 Repair after rupture 6 What worry does 6 What you are actually defending 5 Shame and stigma 5 Breathing 5 Being seen and judged 5 Treatment and medication 5 Shared spiritual life 5 Self-compassion 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Question the thought 4 Feeling from the inside 4 When you use something to cope 3 Name what you feel 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Shame 2 Safety and grounding 2 Rituals of connection 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Affection and touch 2 Hold a boundary 2 Ride the urge 2 Rebuilding trust 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Working with anger 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Patience and trust 2 Panic and the body 2 Emotions as signals 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Calm the body 2 Let the wave come 2 Meaning after harm 2 Get it out of your head 1 Act on your values 1 Keep the bond 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Listening and understanding 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Validate yourself and others 1 Rest and pacing 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When anger turns to harm 1 Listen to the body 1 Your window of tolerance 1 When you go numb 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Reading, numbers and learning differences 1 Care for yourself in loss 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 5 Body based 1

When

Any ordinary day 5 In a change 1

If the word exercise makes you flinch, drop it. Say moving about, or getting out, and see whether a plan turns up.

For a lot of people that word carries school changing rooms and years of not keeping things up. Swap it and the list of things that count grows:…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:53

Missing a day is not the end of the programme. You missed a day. Tomorrow you carry on.

The dangerous part is not the missed session, it is the story that follows it, the one where you have blown it so you may as well stop altogether.…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 30:54

When you reach a goal, stop and let yourself register it before moving on to the next one. Otherwise you collect achievements and never feel any of them.

The pause can be tiny. Say out loud what you did, tell someone, sit with it for a minute, thank God for it. Racing straight on to the next target…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 28:24

One minute of moving between tasks. Star jumps, a lap of the corridor, anything that gets the blood going before you sit down to the next thing.

Classrooms that do this report smoother changeovers and better recall of whatever was just taught. The same trick works at a desk: end one job, move…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9

A silent room is not restful for everybody. If every cough and creaking knee pulls at you, ask for music or bring headphones with something plain in them.

Too little going on can be as unsettling as too much. A low steady sound covers the sudden little noises that keep snagging your attention. Some…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9

Notice one thing your body is telling you right now. Thirsty, needing the loo, shoulders up somewhere near your ears. That noticing is a skill and it does come back with use.

Long stretches of stress teach you to override the body's signals until you stop hearing them at all. Then hunger, tiredness and the early edge of…

A minuteMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 32:9

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