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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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7 practices
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Area · Your body
Focus, starting, and ADHD 18Your body 7Worry and anxiety 5Low mood and hard feelings 4Anger 3
How long you have
A minute 2Five minutes 4Twenty minutes 1
Who it is written for
A practitioner 7Me 7Someone I care about 5
Where you are right now · Coping, mostly
Coping, mostly 7Struggling right now 3Getting ready for something 2
On your own, or with someone
On my own 6Involves someone else 1
Theme
Moving your body 4Your nervous system 2Touch and bodywork 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 5Body based 2
When · In a change
Any ordinary day 198Under stress 24In a change 7Coming and going 5After a row 1

Use a timer you can see rather than a warning you have to remember. A dial that shrinks, or a light that goes from green to red, does the work that five more minutes never quite does.

Time is not something everyone feels passing. Turning it into something you can look at moves the job from guessing to seeing, which is much easier.…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:47

One minute of moving between tasks. Star jumps, a lap of the corridor, anything that gets the blood going before you sit down to the next thing.

Classrooms that do this report smoother changeovers and better recall of whatever was just taught. The same trick works at a desk: end one job, move…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9

Do not stop dead. Give the end of anything energetic a few minutes of winding down, so the change of gear is a routine rather than a demand.

Stopping is a transition, and transitions are where things fall apart for a lot of people. A short unwinding phase, the same one every time, takes…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:239

Move just before the difficult task, not after it as a reward. Five minutes of skipping, stairs or running on the spot, then sit down to the thing.

The window straight after moving is when focus is at its best, so that is the bit worth spending on whatever you have been dreading. For a child,…

Five minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 19:25

The best ending is often that therapy stops and the practices carry on. People finish their sessions and keep the yoga, the bodywork, the acupressure, the sitting quietly.

It is worth building towards that from early on rather than at the end. If everything that settles you happens in one room with one person, then…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 48:29

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…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 50:16

Getting ill the week after the exams, the deadline or the funeral is not bad luck. It is the pattern.

You hold together through the push, and the moment it stops you are in bed with something. Often it was already brewing while you were still going.…

Five minutesYour nervous systemMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:2

There is more about your body than the practices: the your body area has the themes and the courses too.