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

3 practices

Cool the body first Struggling right now Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 2

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Getting ready for something 16 Coping, mostly 6 Struggling right now 3

Theme · Cool the body first

Your nervous system 29 Get started 20 Screens and attention 17 Medication and how it works 16 What ADHD actually is 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 12 Your sense of time 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Shame and stigma 10 Treatment and medication 9 When everything feels flat 9 Obsessions and compulsions 8 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 Reading, numbers and learning differences 8 Touch and bodywork 7 Equanimity and perspective 7 The fear underneath anger 6 Shame 6 The moment before you snap 6 When you use something to cope 6 Being seen and judged 5 Tolerate distress 5 Moving your body 5 Grounding and settling 5 Feelings and focus 5 Structure and routine 5 What worry does 4 Cool the body first 3 Choosing your response 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Growing empathy 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Question the thought 3 Treatment and medication 3 Emotions as signals 3 Practising under provocation 3 Breaking the worry loop 2 When you go numb 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Living with uncertainty 2 Facing it a step at a time 1 What you are actually defending 1 Use your strengths 1 Self-compassion 1 Bringing the future closer 1 Breathing 1 Making it stick 1 Remembering to do it 1

Approach

Body based 2 Core 1

When · Any ordinary day

Under stress 19 After a row 7 Any ordinary day 3

Rest your fingertips against one another and let your attention go to the place where they meet. It is a small piece of contact that is always available to you.

Anger sharpens the line between you and everything outside your skin, and everything on the far side of that line starts looking like a threat or an…

A minuteCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 48:4

Anger numbs. If it is doing the work of a painkiller for you, it will be hard to put down while the pain underneath is still untreated.

Ask what tends to be there in the half hour before you flare: a bit of shame, feeling small, an old fear about being left. The anger often arrives to…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstCoreQur’an 94:1

If the irritability came in alongside a low patch, or a spell of racing thoughts and hardly any sleep, have the mood looked at rather than treating the temper on its own.

Irritability is part of depression, and it belongs to the mixed and elevated states of bipolar disorder too. Anger skills are still worth having, and…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 78:9

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