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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.
Slow breathing on its own does less than slow breathing with a warm feeling attached and something showing you how you are doing.
That is the difference between the deep breathing most people have tried and found underwhelming, and this. The feedback matters because otherwise…
If you try to call up a good feeling and nothing arrives, you are in ordinary company. That blankness is common after a long stretch of hard years, and it is workable.
It helps to do this part with someone else at first, because another person will notice the flicker you dismissed. Look for what is reliably there…
Practise this when you are calm and again when you are wound up. The second one is what makes it available in the moment you need it.
Skills learned in one state can be strangely hard to find in another, which is why people say they forgot to use it. Do the first round with someone…
A skill that lives in your own body and your own phone stays with you after the appointments stop. That is worth choosing for.
Plenty of what helps during treatment ends when the relationship does. This does not. People often say afterwards that the breathing thing was the…
A useful picture: the parts of your brain are sections of an orchestra. In dysregulation they are playing different tunes at different speeds. The aim is timing, not repair.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
This is a kinder frame than damage, and a more accurate one. Nothing is broken or missing. What has gone is the coordination between parts that used…