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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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64 practices

A minute Mindfulness Clear all

Area

Anger 51 Low mood and hard feelings 9 Your body 4

How long you have · A minute

A minute 64 Five minutes 99 Twenty minutes 11 Longer 9

Who it is written for

Me 63 A practitioner 53 Someone I care about 20 My husband or wife 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 33 Struggling right now 19 Getting ready for something 12

On your own, or with someone

On my own 53 Involves someone else 9 Both of us together 2

Theme

The moment before you snap 17 Equanimity and perspective 12 Making it stick 8 Choosing your response 8 Name what you feel 3 What you are actually defending 3 Cool the body first 3 Feeling from the inside 2 Ride the urge 2 Calm the body 2 Grounding and settling 2 Tolerate distress 1 Working with anger 1

Approach · Mindfulness

Core 166ADHD skills 151Body based 124Medical and treatment 87 Gottman 65 Mindfulness 64 Emotionally focused 57 CBT 54 DBT skills 18 Trauma informed 13 Grief 8 Parts work 2 Narrative 2

When

Under stress 32 Any ordinary day 25 After a row 5 Coming and going 2

Anger and doubt cannot really occupy the same moment. Anger sharpens everything to a point, and a genuine maybe blunts it.

This is why an honest question does more than an argument. Not a challenge, which hardens things, but a real one: what if I have got part of this…

A minuteWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 2:206

Your mind is always slightly behind what is happening. Reality moves and you are the response, which leaves you permanently a step late and permanently not quite sure.

Put that way, uncertainty is not a flaw in your thinking, it is the position you are standing in. You are flying into the next moment without having…

A minuteWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 16:23

Not understanding what is happening frightens a person before it angers them. If you flare up when a situation is unclear, you are meeting something very old in yourself rather than a fault you invented.

Watch the order of it next time. First the blank, the not knowing what this means or where it is going, then a tightening in the chest or jaw, then…

A minuteWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 17:36

Choose one short remembrance to say the moment anger rises, and use it every single time.

A prepared word of dhikr catches the anger before it speaks for you.

A minuteWorking with angerMindfulnessQur’an 13:28

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