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

Cool the body first Mindfulness Under stress Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 1

Theme · Cool the body first

The moment before you snap 13 Choosing your response 9 Equanimity and perspective 8 Feeling from the inside 4 Name what you feel 3 Calm the body 3 What you are actually defending 3 Cool the body first 3 Making it stick 2 Ride the urge 2 Tolerate distress 2 Grounding and settling 1 Working with anger 1

Approach · Mindfulness

Body based 26 Mindfulness 3 Core 2

When · Under stress

Under stress 3 Any ordinary day 3 After a row 2

Angry eyes are not unfocused, they are too focused. Everything funnels down onto the person or thing in front of you and the rest of the room goes missing.

That narrowing is part of why anger feels so certain. You are not seeing less because you are careless, you are seeing less because the state does…

A minuteCool the body firstMindfulnessQur’an 27:86

When one thing fills your view, everything around it stops registering. You can be staring hard and taking in almost nothing.

This is why an angry judgement can feel so sharp and turn out to be so poor. The person in front of you has become the whole picture, and the details…

Five minutesCool the body firstMindfulnessQur’an 10:67

Find something with nothing in it to look at: sky, a blank wall, a ceiling, a stretch of grass. Do not concentrate on it. Let your attention spread out over it.

Hostile thinking needs something to grip, and it will use whatever the eyes hand it. An expanse with no features gives it nothing, so the replay…

Five minutesCool the body firstMindfulnessQur’an 40:61

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