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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.
Trying to control what cannot be controlled is what makes a person feel out of control. Let the uncontrollable part be, and a surprising amount of control comes back.
Balance something on your fingertip and you will feel it: the harder you chase it, the more it wobbles. Feelings and thoughts behave the same way.…
The river is different every minute. The one sitting on the bank is the same one who sat there ten years ago, and will be there in ten more.
This is the part that offers something to people whose sense of themselves rises and falls with how they were treated that day. If who you are is the…
There is a kind of mindfulness that means sinking right into a moment, and another that means stepping back from it. When you are angry, you want the second one.
Losing yourself in the taste of a coffee is a lovely practice and it is not this one. Going all the way into a feeling makes it bigger, which is…
You did not calm yourself down. You sat still and watched, and calm turned up. It is worth having that the right way round.
If you credit your own effort for the calm, you will reach for that effort next time you are furious, and it will not be there. Then the failure…
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Some signals cannot be acted on. Ringing in the ears, an old ache, a resentment about something long finished: the alarm is real and there is nothing to answer it with.
Fighting a signal you cannot switch off lays a second misery on top of the first. People who live well with long term pain tend to do something else…