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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.
Before choosing what to try, work out which kind of anxiety you are dealing with. What settles a sudden surge and what wears down months of low grade worry are rarely the same thing.
For the surging kind, the things that help act fast and work on the body. For the worrying kind, they are slower and work on how the days are built:…
Some anxiety medicines have no fast setting at all. They work on the receiving side of the system and take two to four weeks to show anything, so taking one in a bad moment does nothing and proves nothing.
For the right person the trade is a good one: nothing to become dependent on, no withdrawal, no dangerous mixing with alcohol, and nothing to reach…
Take a few photographs of your bedroom, then look at them later and circle whatever has to change or go. Seeing the room in a picture shows you things you stopped noticing years ago while standing in it.
The list is usually short and dull: the light on a charger, the pile of unfinished things on the chair, the television, the clock you keep checking.…
ADHD is managed rather than cured, across a whole life. Anything advertising a cure is telling you it is not working from the evidence.
Managed sounds like a disappointment until you look at what it means in practice: treatment that fits your life now, adjusted when the life changes,…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
If mindfulness is going to help with ADHD, the version with a chance is small and spread out. A few seconds of noticing, several times a day, rather than one long sitting you come to dread.
A forty five minute block asks you to get settled in one place and then somehow carry that into the afternoon, and the carrying is exactly what tends…