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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.
Neurofeedback has its strongest support in attention difficulties, decent support in depression and anxiety, and for trauma it is promising rather than proven.
Reported gains include better sleep and attention, less irritability and fewer trauma symptoms. The honest caveats are cost, wide variation in how…
The first several attempts at any of this will feel awkward and slightly fake. That is not a sign it is not for you.
Repetition is what makes a practice smooth, in the way a piece of music or a gear change stops needing your whole attention after a few weeks. Early…
If nobody helped you learn to settle when you were small, you can still learn it now. Slower and more deliberately, but genuinely.
Reading about early development can leave people feeling sentenced, as though the window shut at three and that was that. The same capacity to adapt…
If you want to breathe more slowly, add one count at a time over weeks. Four in and four out this month, five next month, and no hurry after that.
Very slow breathing can bring on air hunger, that feeling of not getting enough, and for some people it tips straight into panic. Good reason to…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Yoga, breath practice, loving kindness, gratitude, forgiveness work, tapping, rubbing your own shoulders: they all seem to move the same dial. Choose whichever one you will actually keep doing.
It is a strangely mixed list, and the mix is the point. If practices that look nothing alike arrive at similar places, then the argument about which…