This book has now given you nine practices. You do not need all of them every day. Here is how the energy practices fit into an ordinary day beside the ones you already know.
On waking
Before you reach for the phone, three minutes of the breath from page 38, then the five vowels of page 39, three times each. Ten minutes in all.
Through the day
Watch yourself, as on page 14, with two things in mind. Catch the selves as they arrive, as on page 21, and catch the leaks of page 45.
When pressure rises
When desire, anger or fear builds in the body, do five rounds of the breath, wherever you are. No one needs to notice.
In the evening
Do the evening review from page 17, the day walked backward.
Before sleep
Do ten rounds of the breath, and fall asleep with the warmth, not the screen.
If you have a partner and you have both chosen it, the couple’s path of page 40 belongs in the evening, at most once a day.
Keep this shape for one week. It is a shape, not a test. A missed morning is simply a missed morning. Begin again at the next part of the day.
At the end of the week, notice what has changed, without forcing an answer. Then keep the parts that helped.