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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.
It helps to have one small set of moves you use whatever the worry is wearing today. Not a fresh technique for each fear, just the same few steps, learned well enough to reach for without thinking.
Anxiety changes costume. This month it is contamination, next month it is being late, next year it is your health. If every version needs its own…
Coming back after a bad patch is quicker than getting there was the first time. Most people expect the opposite, which is why a setback feels so final.
What you learned did not vanish. It went out of reach for a while, usually because something else was going on in your life. Pick up a rung or two…
The early rungs do not have to be the real thing. A photograph, a video, or picturing it carefully with your eyes shut is a proper step and not a cheat.
This matters most when the real version is out of reach: the dog you cannot summon, the flight you cannot afford, the classroom that is thirty miles…
Start with the body. Slow breathing, muscles let go one at a time, a piece of music, a familiar object in a pocket. Small levers, and they turn fear from something happening to you into something you are doing something about.
Children in particular notice the body first: the racing heart, the sick stomach, the tight chest. That is the part they are actually frightened of.…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.