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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.
When one thing fills your view, everything around it stops registering. You can be staring hard and taking in almost nothing.
This is why an angry judgement can feel so sharp and turn out to be so poor. The person in front of you has become the whole picture, and the details…
Squeeze the hand, hold it for a few seconds, then let it go slowly. The letting go is where the calm is, and it works better once you have practised the long version.
Full muscle relaxation, working through the body group by group, takes about twenty minutes and is worth doing a handful of times. Once your body…
Movement can settle you or wind you further up, and the difference is mostly what your mind is doing while you move.
Pacing the kitchen while you build the case against someone keeps the whole system revved. The same twenty minutes spent counting breaths or noticing…
If you can do a cutting impression of someone, you already own the machinery for empathy. It is the same copying, pointed somewhere else.
People who get angry often are usually sharp readers of other people. They catch the tone, the face, the walk, and can play it back exactly. Try that…
There is more about anger than the practices: the anger area has the themes and the courses too.
A good story about the brain is not evidence. Before you pass one on, especially to people who trust you, it is worth knowing whether it happened the way you tell it.
The famous account of how mirror neurons were found gets retold with the wrong animals and with details that could not have happened as described.…