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.

02/06/2026

Every time you take one deep inhale and lengthen the exhale, you signal safety instead of stress.
That’s your nervous system recalibrating in real time.

02/05/2026

One small act—done consistently—beats the perfect plan abandoned by Thursday.

02/04/2026

You’ll never “clear your mind.”
That’s not the job of mindfulness.
The job is noticing where your mind runs—
and learning you don’t have to sprint after it.

02/03/2026

You know that moment when you finally sit down—tea in hand, world quiet—
and your brain goes: “Excellent. Now let’s panic about everything you didn’t do.”
Yeah. That.
We talk about money poverty all the time.
But almost no one talks about time poverty—
that sense of having too much to do and not enough time to do it.
Researchers tracked 347 people and found the strongest predictor of well-being wasn’t how many hours they had—
it was how much time they felt they had.
Curious how to feel time-rich again?
Full story + practical takeaways:
Link in the comments.

02/02/2026

Imagine if every meeting, email, or scroll started with one breath.
Now imagine the world that would create.

01/30/2026

You can’t stretch a minute.
But you can fill it differently.

01/29/2026

The algorithm rewards outrage.
Your nervous system doesn’t.
Micropractice: Take a moment before your next email or post to ask,
“Does this sound like me on a good day?”

01/28/2026

Micropractice:
Before opening another tab,
close your eyes for one breath.
That’s you reclaiming bandwidth
from a trillion-dollar attention economy.

01/27/2026

We buy a plant.
We water it once.
Then we stand over it, arms crossed, and say—
“Why aren’t you a tree yet?”
Welcome to how most of us treat habits.
We try something for three days.
It feels clumsy.
Nothing changes.
So we assume it’s not working.
Or worse—that we’re not working.
But building a habit isn’t flipping on a light switch.
It’s more like photosynthesis—quiet, slow, invisible at first.
And wildly effective, if you give it time.
We love the idea of quick transformation—
21 days, a clean slate, a new you.
But real habits don’t run on countdowns.
Curious what the science actually says?
Link in comments.

01/26/2026

We’ve normalised rushing through joy.
Today, linger.
Let delight finish its sentence.

01/23/2026

Every action is a vote for the kind of person you’re becoming—
not someday,
but right now.

01/22/2026

The nervous system reshapes like water wears stone—
slowly, persistently, beautifully.
That’s neuroplasticity.
Consistency is the current.

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