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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.
Got drowsy doing it? Nothing has gone wrong. Your body has decided there is no threat here, which was rather the point.
People apologise for getting sleepy, as though they failed to concentrate hard enough. The heaviness is your alarm system standing down, and it is a…
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…
If waiting has always been hard for you, and your attention has always been restless, that belongs in the anger picture rather than in a separate story.
Irritability, reactivity and a mind that will not settle often arrive as a set. Working on the anger while ignoring the attention leaves the ground…
Say the difficult sentence out loud, on your feet, in something like the real conditions. Thinking it through in your head is a different skill from getting it out of your mouth when your pulse is up.
Acting it out feels awkward and that awkwardness is part of why it works: the version of you who has to speak is the aroused one, so that is the…
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