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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.
When someone's tone lands as an attack, part of that reading was made years ago. Your alarm hands you stored learning dressed up as a plain fact about right now.
Knowing this takes the accusation out of the word bias. You are not a suspicious person by nature, you are a person carrying a file that was built…
You will hear tidy explanations of what your brain does when you get angry. Take the useful part and hold the neat story loosely.
Some popular claims about the emotional brain, including which side handles which feeling, are still argued over by the people who study them. That…
Two honest studies can point in opposite directions, and neither is a verdict on you. Nothing in a brain scan can yet tell one person how angry they are or will be.
Smaller amygdala volume has been linked with aggression in some samples, and eight weeks of mindfulness practice has also been linked with volume…
A face read quickly is a face read badly. Before you answer what you think you saw, allow that the flat look might be tiredness, or worry about something else entirely.
Faces get processed fast and with very little checking, which is why a neutral expression lands as contempt when you are already braced for it. If it…
Before you start a practice that needs a pen and paper, have the pen and paper. It sounds too small to matter and it is the difference between doing the exercise and daydreaming about it.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
The physical object is what turns something happening inside you into something you can count. If you are doing this with someone over a screen, ask…