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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.

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4 practices
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Area
Anger 3Focus, starting, and ADHD 1
How long you have · A minute
A minute 4Five minutes 34Twenty minutes 14Longer 1
Who it is written for
Me 4Someone I care about 3A practitioner 3
Where you are right now · Getting ready for something
Coping, mostly 15Struggling right now 5Getting ready for something 4
On your own, or with someone
On my own 3Involves someone else 1
Theme
Choosing your response 1Treatment and medication 1Practising under provocation 1Equanimity and perspective 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 1Mindfulness 1CBT 1Core 1
When · Coming and going
Any ordinary day 55In a change 6Coming and going 4Under stress 2

Your body gets up in the morning and your mind often does not. Half a day can go by in a sort of waking dream, and whatever meets you in it gets the sleepwalker's answer.

So make waking the moment you decide something, before the day has handed you anything to react to. Thirty seconds on the edge of the bed will do:…

A minuteChoosing your responseCoreQur’an 24:22

Before someone has said a word, you have often already decided what they are: only here because they were made to come, not really interested, wasting your time. That decision changes how the meeting goes.

The person sent by a court, or pushed into the room by a partner or a manager, walks in already read. Try starting the hour with nothing written: no…

A minuteEquanimity and perspectiveMindfulnessQur’an 9:129

Before anyone does something exposing, let them check their own conditions and give them a clean way to say no. A public yes given under pressure is not really a yes.

It can be as ordinary as asking someone to consider whether they have the privacy, the time and the state of mind for this today. Ask it first and…

A minutePractising under provocationCBTQur’an 2:45

If someone selling you a treatment for ADHD uses the word cure, that is your cue to leave. There is no cure. What good treatment offers is fewer symptoms, and that is a real and worthwhile thing.

A registered clinician is not allowed to promise you an outcome, because nobody can honestly guarantee one. So a provider who promises makes you a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

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