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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.
Moving first does not only help you concentrate. It takes some of the heat out of being stuck, which is often the thing that ends the task.
For a lot of people the problem is not the maths, it is what happens inside them when the maths does not come immediately. That surge of frustration…
Hours of nothing, then panic, then three hours locked onto the wrong task, then dread, then a promise that tomorrow will be different. If that is your day, it is a known pattern and not a character flaw.
People post this shape as a joke and clinicians recognise it as an accurate description. Seeing it written down is often the moment something…
When you are low, the thing most likely to help is the thing you have least appetite for. Make the first step small enough that appetite is not required.
Getting as far as the front door can be the whole task on a bad day. Standing up, putting your shoes on, then deciding, is a fair plan. Anyone…
A movement practice comes apart into pieces: the shapes, the breathing, the noticing. On a day when the whole thing is beyond you, take one piece.
Just the breathing, sitting where you already are, is a practice. So is one stretch held for a minute. Doing a fragment keeps the thread going, and…
There is more about your body than the practices: the your body area has the themes and the courses too.
If a child is climbing the walls, green space helps most, a walk down a busy street helps a bit, and staying in the room helps least. Any of the three beats none.
The research on this puts them in that order rather than saying only a forest will do. A park, a scruffy playing field, the bit of grass behind the…