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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.
Three minutes of slow breathing between one person and the next is not a break. It is part of the work.
Whoever you sit with next is reading your state before they hear a word of what you say, so arriving settled is a professional act rather than a…
A stress response is built to finish. The rush comes up, you do something with it, and then it drains away and you are back to yourself.
The trouble is that the doing something rarely happens, because you cannot run or shout in the middle of a meeting. The aim is not to stop the surge.…
Not all stillness is the same. One kind is braced and wide awake. The other has gone soft and far away.
In the braced kind there is high alertness and a lot of held tension: jaw set, hands tight, everything ready. In the collapsed kind the tone drops…
Thinking about a feeling tends to slow it down. Feeling it in your body tends to speed it up. Between those two you have a throttle.
When someone is flooded, moving to words, naming and a little distance brings it down. When someone is flat and describing their week from behind…
The tools that slow things down mostly use your head: naming what is happening, standing back a little, putting the distress at arm's length for now.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Explaining to yourself what your body is doing. Watching a thought rather than arguing with it. Asking whether the worst reading is the only reading.…