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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.
If the word mindfulness makes you wince, leave the word out. Paying attention to your breath, or to the sounds in the room, is the whole of it.
A lot of people turn the practice down before trying it, because the label sounds like it belongs to somebody else's religion or somebody else's sort…
One or two minutes every day will do more for you than forty minutes once a week. The long sit sounds serious and is mostly a good way to end up dreading it.
Set the price so low that skipping it would be odd: a minute, at a moment you already have. The aim is that it happens again tomorrow, not that it…
Treat it like brushing your teeth rather than like meditating. Nobody is good at brushing their teeth, and nobody skips it because last night's went badly.
The hygiene framing takes the achievement out of it, and achievement is where perfectionists quit. Put it next to something already automatic: after…
If a practice looks pointless, you will have dropped it by Thursday. Before you take on anything new, get clear on what it is meant to be building in you.
Ask for the mechanism in one plain sentence: this repeated thing grows that capacity. Write it somewhere you will actually see it. When the practice…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Your brain is expensive to run and it spends where it is used. What you stop practising gets quietly defunded.
This is the honest reason to keep a skill going after it has started working. The month you feel calm is exactly the month the practice looks…