Reference

The words for what
you’re feeling.

Plain, honest definitions of the terms that come up when you read about the mind, each one linked to the tool that lets you practise it.

Regulate your nervous system

Box breathing

The four-count square: in, hold, out, hold.

Coming back to the present through your senses.

Your sense of what's happening inside your body.

The zone where you can feel without being flooded.

Understand what's happening inside

The loop of re-thinking that feels like solving but isn't.

A habitual bend in how a thought presents itself.

When the mind jumps to the worst version of the story.

Naming a feeling, which measurably quiets it.

How precisely you can name what you feel.

Finding a truer, more useful angle on the same facts.

Move forward on something stuck

Why choices get harder the more of them you make.