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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 your head goes quieter during practice, nothing has been emptied out. It has filled up with something that does not need judging.
People take the quiet as proof they have finally cleared their mind, then feel cheated when the noise comes back. It never left. Attention was…
Eventually the pen goes down and the finger stays still, and you simply notice what moves through you. That is the whole thing with the scaffolding taken away.
The props are there to teach you what noticing feels like, not to be carried around forever. Once you can tell the difference between being inside a…
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…
Most of us think there are two things to do with anger: hold it in or let it out. There is a third, which is to stop, stay still, and watch it without doing either.
Holding it in has you clamped shut and seething. Letting it out has you saying things you will be repairing for weeks. The third one feels like doing…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Stop fighting what already is. Accepting a hard reality, without approving of it, ends the extra layer of pain.
Saying it is so is not the same as saying it is fine. Dropping the war with what already happened frees you to respond.