Micropractice

By Eli Susman
PhD candidate at UC Berkeley studying micropractice—powerful well-being tools that take 30 seconds or less.

Featured in CNN, BBC, CBS, Forbes, LA Times, Mindful, and named among Greater Good Magazine’s Top 10 Insights of 2024.

03/02/2026

People worry that small efforts don’t count.
Meanwhile, your toothbrush is quietly transforming your entire mouth two minutes at a time.
Sometimes the mundane is the magic.

02/27/2026

Self-compassion is not letting yourself off the hook.
It’s realizing the hook was never helping.

02/26/2026

Yes—consistency can be boring.
But so can brushing your teeth.
And look how well that’s been working out for you.

02/25/2026

Everyone wants transformation to feel like fireworks.
But the nervous system prefers tea candles—steady, quiet, repeated.
Keep lighting them. That’s how rooms brighten.

02/24/2026

You open your phone to check the weather.
Five minutes later, you’ve scrolled through a government collapse, a climate crisis, and three people arguing about soup.
Welcome to the psychological equivalent of drinking from a firehose—with broken glass in it.
Our brains were built for the occasional tiger attack, not a 24/7 feed of despair.
And yet—there’s a scientifically tested antidote.
A new study found that watching just one inspiring story each day lowered stress as much as meditation.
I wrote about it—and a micropractice called Hopesurfing—in my latest piece.
If your nervous system needs a breath of hope, try starting here.
Full story: link in comments.
P.S. Have a story that made you believe in people again? Drop it in the comments—we could all use a little more good news in our feeds.

02/23/2026

Yes—I touch grass.
No—it doesn’t fix the world.
But it reminds me—I have skin.

02/20/2026

Take one mindful step.
Put down your phone. Stand up. Right foot forward.
Then see how weird it feels not to do another.
Momentum hides inside the smallest motion.

02/19/2026

Water doesn’t carve stone by force—it does it by showing up.
Same for calm.
Same for joy.
Same for you.

02/18/2026

No one says, “I brushed extra hard today, so I can skip tomorrow.”
Yet we do that with meditation, kindness, exercise, sleep…
Turns out, peace of mind gets plaque too.

02/17/2026

We all shut down sometimes.
You see someone suffering, and your body looks away before your conscience can catch up.
That moment—when empathy goes offline—has a neural signature.
And, oddly enough, a vegetable can light it back up.
Researchers found that when people were asked “Would this person like broccoli?” their brains literally re-humanized them.
Turns out, compassion doesn’t always start with common interests.
Sometimes it starts with... cruciferous vegetables.
Link to full story (and the micropractice you can try today) in comments.

02/16/2026

Thirty seconds a day beats thirty minutes once a month. Every time.

02/13/2026

Tiny doesn’t mean weak. It means repeatable—and that’s where change often hides.

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