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.

Narrowed down

6 practices

Breathing Getting ready for something Clear all

How long you have

A minute 2 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 6 Me 6 Someone I care about 6

Where you are right now · Getting ready for something

Coping, mostly 19 Struggling right now 10 Getting ready for something 6

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Involves someone else 3

Theme · Breathing

Medication and how it works 48 Food, caffeine and fuel 20 Systems for daily life 19 Choosing your response 19 The moment before you snap 18 Cool the body first 16 Treatment and medication 16 Practising under provocation 16 Exercise, food and other supports 14 What ADHD actually is 14 Reading, numbers and learning differences 13 Facing it a step at a time 12 Your nervous system 12 Getting assessed and diagnosed 12 Your sense of time 11 Bringing the future closer 10 Moving your body 10 What anger actually is 9 Grounding and settling 9 Making it stick 8 Feelings and focus 8 Remembering to do it 6 Equanimity and perspective 6 Breathing 6 Touch and bodywork 5 The fear underneath anger 5 The cost of avoiding 5 When you use something to cope 4 Tolerate distress 4 When everything feels flat 4 Shame and stigma 3 Being seen and judged 3 Structure and routine 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Treatment and medication 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Get started 2 Screens and attention 2 Self-compassion 1 Living with uncertainty 1 What you are actually defending 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Shame 1 Use your strengths 1 Rest and pacing 1 Panic and the body 1 Growing empathy 1

When

Any ordinary day 5 In a change 1

The fast forceful practices are not for everyone. With high blood pressure, heart trouble or glaucoma, leave them out and use the slow ones, which carry no such warning.

Rapid breathing with effort behind it raises pressure inside the chest, the head and the eyes for as long as you keep it going. The gentler lift,…

A minuteBreathingBody basedQur’an 32:9

Any breathing instruction that reaches you through a screen or a book comes from someone who cannot see you. Keep the final say over what your body does.

Recorded instructions have to be general. You are the one who knows that your chest tightens on holds, or that counting makes you anxious. Treat each…

A minuteBreathingBody basedQur’an 26:13

Hot yoga asks you to keep drinking all the way through the class. If forgetting to eat and drink is one of your regular problems, choose a different room.

This is not about the style being bad. It is about matching what you choose to the things you genuinely find hard. Dehydration creeps up quietly and…

Five minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 94:5

The same breathing serves different jobs at different times. Early on it may be there to help you sleep and stay contained. Later it may be there to help you feel more, not less.

This is worth knowing so you do not judge yourself for finding a practice useful now that was useless six months ago, or the other way round. In the…

Five minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 4:103

A good instructor says light, moderate, heavy. A poor one says set the dial to three. Only one of those takes account of the body you actually brought with you.

Fixed settings guarantee that somebody in the room is working far too hard and somebody else is barely working at all. If you tend to go flat out and…

Twenty minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 65:7

Heading towards the shape is the whole job. A perfect triangle is not what the pose is for, and nobody is marking it.

Perfectionism and going too hard tend to travel together, and between them they produce most of the injuries and most of the quitting. If you are…

Twenty minutesBreathingBody basedQur’an 20:26

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