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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8 practices

Touch and bodywork Twenty minutes Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 13 Five minutes 43 Twenty minutes 8 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 8 Me 6 Someone I care about 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 6 Both of us together 2

Theme · Touch and bodywork

Systems for daily life 38 Medication and how it works 30 Moving your body 26 Treatment and medication 19 Screens and attention 18 Get started 17 Getting assessed and diagnosed 17 What ADHD actually is 17 Feelings and focus 16 The cost of avoiding 15 Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Your nervous system 14 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 What anger actually is 10 Exercise, food and other supports 10 Your sense of time 10 Bringing the future closer 9 Touch and bodywork 8 The moment before you snap 8 Shared spiritual life 7 Emotions as signals 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Cool the body first 6 Tolerate distress 6 Grounding and settling 6 Shame 6 Shame and stigma 5 Breathing 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 When you use something to cope 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 When everything feels flat 5 Remembering to do it 5 When anger turns to harm 4 Repair after rupture 4 Rituals of connection 4 What worry does 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 Being seen and judged 4 Choosing your response 4 Growing empathy 4 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Structure and routine 3 Use your strengths 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Practising under provocation 3 Knowing your partner 3 Making it stick 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Answering bids 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Letting it out safely 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Question the thought 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Safety and grounding 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Rest and pacing 1 Listen to the body 1 Treatment and medication 1 What you are actually defending 1 Keep the bond 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 4 Body based 4

When

Any ordinary day 7 In a change 1

Regular massage has been studied with restless, distractible children and teenagers, and their teachers noticed the difference in class as well as the young people noticing it in themselves.

The pattern in these studies is modest and repeated: short sessions, twice a week, over several weeks, with mood and behaviour improving rather than…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkMedical and treatmentQur’an 17:24

Aching shoulders and a bad back are not separate from finding it hard to concentrate. Pain takes up room in your head, and there is less left for anything else.

People who are restless tend to hold more tension and pick up more injuries, and then the pain makes the focus worse, and round it goes. So it is…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

In placebo studies, people improve even when they have been told outright that the pill is inert. They also usually spend half an hour talking with someone who is paying attention.

That half hour is easy to dismiss as a detail of the study design, and it may be most of the treatment. Which is oddly encouraging: careful listening…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:263

Reviews do not support acupuncture as a treatment for attention difficulties. Some studies of acupuncture alongside counselling have done better than dummy needling alongside counselling, which is a more modest claim than it first sounds.

The likeliest reading is that a warm, unhurried practitioner who examines you carefully is doing much of the work. Needles are very fine and harm is…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:128

There is a route the calming nerve takes through you: eyes, then jaw and mouth, then throat and neck, then shoulders and chest, then belly. You can visit each stop in turn and simply notice what is there.

Give every area a moment before you move on. Soften around the eyes, let the jaw hang, sigh the throat loose, feel the chest lift, then rest a hand…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 5:6

Talking is not the only door in. Exercise, massage, acupressure, yoga, tai chi and the rest go at the body first and let the mind follow, which is the opposite direction from most therapy.

That is why they sit well beside talking work rather than competing with it. If words keep circling the same ground, changing what your body is doing…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 21:90

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

Body based approaches have been linked with better physical and mental health, easier relationships, and in some settings lower use of painkillers and psychiatric medication.

That last one tends to interest the people holding the budget, so it is worth knowing if you are trying to get this kind of work taken seriously…

Twenty minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 16:69

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