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.

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4 practices

Equanimity and perspective Five minutes Getting ready for something Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 4 Longer 1

Who it is written for

Me 4 A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 2 My husband or wife 1

Where you are right now · Getting ready for something

Coping, mostly 29 Struggling right now 11 Getting ready for something 4

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Equanimity and perspective

Medication and how it works 36 Food, caffeine and fuel 12 Choosing your response 11 Your nervous system 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 Cool the body first 9 Practising under provocation 8 The moment before you snap 8 What ADHD actually is 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Reading, numbers and learning differences 6 Treatment and medication 6 Getting assessed and diagnosed 6 Grounding and settling 5 Touch and bodywork 5 Your sense of time 4 When everything feels flat 4 Remembering to do it 4 Equanimity and perspective 4 Bringing the future closer 4 What anger actually is 4 Moving your body 3 Feelings and focus 3 Making it stick 3 Tolerate distress 3 The cost of avoiding 2 Shame and stigma 2 The fear underneath anger 2 Systems for daily life 2 Breathing 2 Being seen and judged 2 Screens and attention 1 When you use something to cope 1 Get started 1 Feeling from the inside 1 What you are actually defending 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Treatment and medication 1 Structure and routine 1 Breaking the worry loop 1

Approach

Mindfulness 2 Core 2

When

Any ordinary day 3 Under stress 1

Change the question you ask yourself. Not how badly do I want to stay calm, but what have I actually practised for the moment it starts.

Wanting is not a plan. Decide in advance the words you will use, the room you will step into, the person you will ring afterwards. Rehearsed things…

Five minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 25:62

Behind calm that looks superhuman there are usually decades of dull practice. The practice is the part worth copying, not the headline.

Setting your worst moment against somebody else's lifetime of training only produces despair. Ask instead what that person did on an ordinary…

Five minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 53:39

Stoics, Cynics, Buddhist teachers and your own grandmother were all working on the same problem: how to stay steady when life leans on you. You are allowed to use the version that is already yours.

You do not have to import somebody else's whole worldview to get a practice of steadiness. If sitting with a breath count feels foreign, a…

Five minutesEquanimity and perspectiveMindfulnessQur’an 3:191

Have three or four openers ready before you need them. For what it is worth. Can I run something by you. You might not like this, so give me the benefit of the doubt.

When you are stirred up you will not compose diplomatic language on the spot, so the phrases have to be picked in advance and worn in. Say them aloud…

Five minutesEquanimity and perspectiveMindfulnessQur’an 3:173

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.