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

3 practices

Breathing Twenty minutes On my own Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 5 Five minutes 18 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 3 Me 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 3 Involves someone else 2

Theme · Breathing

Systems for daily life 23 Moving your body 17 Medication and how it works 13 Your nervous system 12 Get started 12 What ADHD actually is 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Treatment and medication 9 What anger actually is 8 Your sense of time 7 Bringing the future closer 7 Screens and attention 7 The moment before you snap 6 Cool the body first 6 Feelings and focus 6 Tolerate distress 6 Touch and bodywork 6 Grounding and settling 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 5 When you use something to cope 4 Remembering to do it 4 When everything feels flat 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Shame 4 Exercise, food and other supports 4 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Shame and stigma 3 Emotions as signals 3 Practising under provocation 3 Use your strengths 3 Breathing 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Choosing your response 3 Being seen and judged 3 Letting it out safely 2 Structure and routine 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Making it stick 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Living with uncertainty 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Question the thought 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Treatment and medication 1 Shared spiritual life 1 Listen to the body 1 Safety and grounding 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Rest and pacing 1 What worry does 1 What you are actually defending 1 Repair after rupture 1 Keep the bond 1

These practices are not only pleasant. They change things you could measure, which is worth knowing on the days when pleasant is not reason enough to bother.

Yoga and breath work tend to get filed under relaxation, and that undersells them. There are claims made about them shifting the chemistry involved…

Twenty minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 32:9

A good instructor says light, moderate, heavy. A poor one says set the dial to three. Only one of those takes account of the body you actually brought with you.

Fixed settings guarantee that somebody in the room is working far too hard and somebody else is barely working at all. If you tend to go flat out and…

Twenty minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 65:7

There are two skills here rather than one: letting your body move and settle in its own way, and being able to steer yourself deliberately towards rest or alertness. It is worth having both.

Most people are strong in one and shy of the other. If you always take charge, your body never gets to finish anything on its own. If you only ever…

Twenty minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 2:153

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