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

Making it stick Someone I care about Under stress Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 6 Me 6 Someone I care about 2

Theme · Making it stick

Grounding and settling 29 Cool the body first 26 Your nervous system 21 The fear underneath anger 17 What anger actually is 14 Feelings and focus 11 Equanimity and perspective 11 The moment before you snap 10 The cost of avoiding 9 Systems for daily life 9 Breathing 8 Moving your body 8 What worry does 7 When anger turns to harm 6 Screens and attention 6 Shame and stigma 6 Tolerate distress 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Medication and how it works 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Choosing your response 5 Letting it out safely 4 When everything feels flat 4 Shame 4 Bringing the future closer 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 What you are actually defending 3 Self-compassion 2 Your sense of time 2 Structure and routine 2 Treatment and medication 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Making it stick 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Growing empathy 2 Food, caffeine and fuel 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 What ADHD actually is 1 Rest and pacing 1 When you use something to cope 1 Get started 1 Remembering to do it 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 13 Under stress 2 After a row 2 In a change 1

Your brain is less a single organ than a crowd of billions of cells working out what to do next. The angry pull you feel is one voice in that crowd, not the whole of you.

This matters most in the second when an impulse arrives sounding completely certain. You can hear it, treat it as one contribution, and still not act…

A minuteMaking it stickCoreQur’an 13:11

Knowing something calmly and feeling it are two separate achievements, and the second takes longer. If you can say the reasonable thing but it does not touch how you feel, you are partway, not failing.

The gap does not close by arguing with yourself harder. It closes by living it: doing the practice in real situations, in your body, while the…

Twenty minutesMaking it stickCoreQur’an 87:8

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