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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 · Twenty minutes
Five minutes 4Twenty minutes 3Longer 1
Who it is written for
Someone I care about 3Me 3A practitioner 3
On your own, or with someone
On my own 2Involves someone else 1
Theme · Moving your body
Systems for daily life 4Feelings and focus 3Screens and attention 3Shame 3Moving your body 3Reading, numbers and learning differences 2The cost of avoiding 2Choosing your response 2Staying regulated in conflict 2Cool the body first 2Food, caffeine and fuel 2Emotions as signals 2Letting it out safely 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Your nervous system 2What worry does 1Treatment and medication 1Tolerate distress 1Shame and stigma 1Remembering to do it 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Medication and how it works 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Making it stick 1Get started 1Facing it a step at a time 1Equanimity and perspective 1Being seen and judged 1Answering bids 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 2Body based 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 21Under stress 3Coming and going 1After a row 1

If a child is climbing the walls, green space helps most, a walk down a busy street helps a bit, and staying in the room helps least. Any of the three beats none.

The research on this puts them in that order rather than saying only a forest will do. A park, a scruffy playing field, the bit of grass behind the…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 29:20

Slow movement practices seem to help mood, sleep and the general hum of stress. Bringing that background level down often does more for your concentration than trying to concentrate harder.

Running on a constant stress signal wears down exactly the part of you that plans, waits and holds a thought. So lowering the load is not a soft…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 16:15

Some of what you are carrying has not finished happening. Movement that soothes rather than pushes tends to suit that better than anything strenuous.

Advice built around a danger that has passed does not fit a person still meeting it weekly, whether that is racism, an unsafe household or work that…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 2:153

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