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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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5 practices
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Area
Your body 3Anger 2
How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 53Five minutes 68Twenty minutes 5Longer 1
Who it is written for
Me 5A practitioner 5Someone I care about 4
Where you are right now
Struggling right now 3Coping, mostly 2
On your own, or with someone
On my own 4Involves someone else 1
Theme
Cool the body first 2Your nervous system 2Moving your body 1
Approach · Body based
ADHD skills 10Medical and treatment 8CBT 7Core 6Body based 5Gottman 5Trauma informed 3Grief 2Emotionally focused 2Narrative 1DBT skills 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 32Under stress 5After a row 3When apart 1In a change 1

Squeeze the hand, hold it for a few seconds, then let it go slowly. The letting go is where the calm is, and it works better once you have practised the long version.

Full muscle relaxation, working through the body group by group, takes about twenty minutes and is worth doing a handful of times. Once your body…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 20:14

Movement can settle you or wind you further up, and the difference is mostly what your mind is doing while you move.

Pacing the kitchen while you build the case against someone keeps the whole system revved. The same twenty minutes spent counting breaths or noticing…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 13:28

Some of what you are carrying has not finished happening. Movement that soothes rather than pushes tends to suit that better than anything strenuous.

Advice built around a danger that has passed does not fit a person still meeting it weekly, whether that is racism, an unsafe household or work that…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 2:153

When you cannot settle yourself, borrow somebody else's steadiness. Sitting near a calm person, even without talking, is a real thing to try.

Choose by effect rather than by closeness. Some people you love leave you more wound up than you started, and some people you barely know are easy to…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:248

If you mostly run hot and jumpy, start with slow paced breathing. If you mostly go blank and far away, work that reaches you through sound and voice tends to get further.

The idea is to pick the tool that pulls against your usual tilt. Breathing practice puts the brake back on a system that has lost it. Sound and voice…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 23:78

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