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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.
Draw a small circle on three separate scraps of paper without thinking about it. Then look: same size, same spot on the page, same direction of stroke, same starting point, nearly every time.
It is worth actually doing rather than reading about, because the evidence is yours and it is hard to argue with. Nobody chose those four things,…
Those first three circles were reactions rather than actions. Something old moved your hand, and you learned what it had decided at the same moment everyone else did.
This is why people say, honestly, that they did not decide to say the thing they said. The words were out before anything you would call choosing had…
There is no point reasoning with yourself while you are still lit up. Wake the part of you that does the reasoning first, then hand it the problem.
Under real arousal the clever reframes you learned are simply not available, which is why they seem to evaporate exactly when they are needed.…
Choosing has two halves: seeing that there is more than one thing you could do, and then actually taking one. Failing at either looks identical from outside and needs quite different work.
Some people genuinely cannot picture a second option in the moment, and the job there is building a menu in calmer hours. Others can list four…
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