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

2 practices

What you are actually defending Struggling right now Mindfulness Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 1

Who it is written for

Me 2 A practitioner 2 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 7 Struggling right now 2

Theme · What you are actually defending

The moment before you snap 13 Equanimity and perspective 7 Choosing your response 7 Feeling from the inside 6 Grounding and settling 5 Making it stick 4 Cool the body first 3 What you are actually defending 2

Approach · Mindfulness

Mindfulness 2 Core 1

When

In a change 1 Under stress 1

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

Giving up certainty is a loss, and it is fair to treat it as one. People do grieve the version of themselves who knew exactly what was going on.

The same piece of work gets called several things: getting used to uncertainty in small doses, learning to sit with confusion, or grieving the loss…

Five minutesWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 3:154

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