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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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How long you have · A minute
A minute 4Five minutes 1Twenty minutes 1
Who it is written for
Me 4A practitioner 4Someone I care about 1
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 2Struggling right now 2
Theme · Making it stick
The moment before you snap 22Choosing your response 21Cool the body first 21What anger actually is 16Grounding and settling 15The fear underneath anger 13Staying regulated in conflict 12Equanimity and perspective 10Your nervous system 9Answering bids 8Practising under provocation 6Affection and touch 6Touch and bodywork 5What you are actually defending 4Tolerate distress 4Bringing the future closer 4Making it stick 4Feelings and focus 4Safety and grounding 3Knowing your partner 3When everything feels flat 3The cost of avoiding 3Name what you feel 3What worry does 3Treatment and medication 3Shame 3Meaning after harm 2Being seen and judged 2Breathing 2Calm the body 2Food, caffeine and fuel 2Emotions as signals 2Feeling from the inside 2Let the wave come 2Patience and trust 2Question the thought 2Ride the urge 2Righteous anger and perfectionism 2Shame and stigma 2Working with anger 2Validate yourself and others 1Treatment and medication 1Your window of tolerance 1Care for yourself in loss 1Breaking the worry loop 1Shared spiritual life 1Your sense of time 1Repair after rupture 1Rebuild trust 1Posture and how you carry yourself 1Panic and the body 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Medication and how it works 1Act on your values 1Listen to the body 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Facing it a step at a time 1Letting it out safely 1Growing empathy 1Systems for daily life 1What ADHD actually is 1
Approach
Core 3Mindfulness 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 9Under stress 4After a row 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

The aim is not to stop feeling angry. It is to stretch the time between the feeling arriving and you doing anything about it, from no seconds to a few.

That target has the advantage of being honest and checkable. You can ask whether you got a moment this time that you did not get last time. The anger…

A minuteMaking it stickMindfulnessQur’an 3:186

One move to interrupt, one to settle. Open your hand, then take the slow breaths: the first buys you the gap and the second gives you something to do with it.

An interrupt on its own leaves you standing there, aware and still flooded. A settling practice on its own never gets going, because the moment goes…

A minuteMaking it stickCoreQur’an 94:7

Sometimes you can feel the whole exchange lined up before it starts: your line, then theirs, then the door. Leaving your line out is enough to stop the sequence that once.

Nothing impressive is required. You sit there, you say nothing, you let the moment go past unfilled and you find out that it can. Some scripts do…

A minuteMaking it stickCoreQur’an 31:17

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