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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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How long you have · A minute
A minute 7Five minutes 17Twenty minutes 17Longer 7
Who it is written for
A practitioner 7Someone I care about 7Me 5
Where you are right now · Coping, mostly
Coping, mostly 7Getting ready for something 1Struggling right now 1
On your own, or with someone
On my own 4Involves someone else 3
Theme · Moving your body
Staying regulated in conflict 46Choosing your response 25Answering bids 22Medication and how it works 18The fear underneath anger 18Bringing the future closer 17The moment before you snap 17Your nervous system 15Fondness and admiration 15Knowing your partner 14Affection and touch 14Equanimity and perspective 14Systems for daily life 13Repair after rupture 13Get started 13What anger actually is 13Growing empathy 12Cool the body first 12Your sense of time 12Treatment and medication 11Structure and routine 10Grounding and settling 9Gratitude 9When everything feels flat 8Listening and understanding 8Feelings and focus 8Moving your body 7Getting assessed and diagnosed 7Making it stick 6Exercise, food and other supports 6Remembering to do it 6Rituals of connection 6Shared spiritual life 6Touch and bodywork 6Screens and attention 5What you are actually defending 5Rebuilding trust 5Being seen and judged 5Emotions as signals 5Breathing 4Food, caffeine and fuel 4Treatment and medication 4Shame and stigma 4Tolerate distress 4Practising under provocation 4What worry does 3What ADHD actually is 3Question the thought 3The cost of avoiding 3Name what you feel 3Safety and grounding 3When you use something to cope 3Self-compassion 3Reading, numbers and learning differences 2When anger turns to harm 2Calm the body 2Facing it a step at a time 2Hold a boundary 2Let the wave come 2Meaning after harm 2Notice the pattern and flex 2Obsessions and compulsions 2Patience and trust 2Ride the urge 2Shame 2Validate yourself and others 2Working with anger 2Your worth is not conditional 2Breaking the worry loop 1Your window of tolerance 1Righteous anger and perfectionism 1Panic and the body 1Listen to the body 1Act on your values 1Keep the bond 1Help someone grieving 1Get it out of your head 1Feeling from the inside 1Face it gently 1Care for yourself in loss 1Ask and say no well 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 6Body based 1
When
Any ordinary day 5In a change 2

When you reach a goal, stop and let yourself register it before moving on to the next one. Otherwise you collect achievements and never feel any of them.

The pause can be tiny. Say out loud what you did, tell someone, sit with it for a minute, thank God for it. Racing straight on to the next target…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 28:24

When you need to correct one person, say it to the room. Everyone gets the instruction and nobody gets the sting.

Good instructors do this without thinking: they see one child dropping their guard and say that everybody needs to keep their hands up. The teaching…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 31:19

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

A silent room is not restful for everybody. If every cough and creaking knee pulls at you, ask for music or bring headphones with something plain in them.

Too little going on can be as unsettling as too much. A low steady sound covers the sudden little noises that keep snagging your attention. Some…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9

When someone describes a day like that, do not answer with a lecture on living better. Say that this is hard, and that you find parts of it hard too.

They have heard the virtue speech many times already and it has never once helped. Admitting that you also struggle to exercise, or to keep up with…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 25:63

Notice one thing your body is telling you right now. Thirsty, needing the loo, shoulders up somewhere near your ears. That noticing is a skill and it does come back with use.

Long stretches of stress teach you to override the body's signals until you stop hearing them at all. Then hunger, tiredness and the early edge of…

A minuteMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 32:9

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