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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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127 practices
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Area
Your body 97Anger 27Low mood and hard feelings 3
How long you have
A minute 53Five minutes 68Twenty minutes 5Longer 1
Who it is written for
A practitioner 126Me 119Someone I care about 88My husband or wife 3
Where you are right now
Struggling right now 96Coping, mostly 29Getting ready for something 2
On your own, or with someone
On my own 116Involves someone else 10Both of us together 1
Theme
Grounding and settling 29Cool the body first 26Your nervous system 23Touch and bodywork 22Breathing 10Feeling from the inside 5Moving your body 4Posture and how you carry yourself 4Tolerate distress 3Growing empathy 1
Approach · Body based
Body based 127Core 113CBT 54Mindfulness 54ADHD skills 52Medical and treatment 35Emotionally focused 28Gottman 21Trauma informed 16Grief 10DBT skills 10Parts work 3Narrative 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 215Under stress 127After a row 12In a change 5Coming and going 5When apart 2

A stress response is built to finish. The rush comes up, you do something with it, and then it drains away and you are back to yourself.

The trouble is that the doing something rarely happens, because you cannot run or shout in the middle of a meeting. The aim is not to stop the surge.…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 94:2

Not all stillness is the same. One kind is braced and wide awake. The other has gone soft and far away.

In the braced kind there is high alertness and a lot of held tension: jaw set, hands tight, everything ready. In the collapsed kind the tone drops…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 6:125

Thinking about a feeling tends to slow it down. Feeling it in your body tends to speed it up. Between those two you have a throttle.

When someone is flooded, moving to words, naming and a little distance brings it down. When someone is flat and describing their week from behind…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 73:6

The tools that slow things down mostly use your head: naming what is happening, standing back a little, putting the distress at arm's length for now.

Explaining to yourself what your body is doing. Watching a thought rather than arguing with it. Asking whether the worst reading is the only reading.…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 39:42

The tools that reach what words cannot are physical: feet on the floor, a long breath out, pushing hard against a wall, deliberately walking away from something.

Some of what happened is held below language, which is why the most articulate account of it can leave you unchanged. Movement that finishes…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 76:2

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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