Chapter 26 — Daily Practices and Tools

Daily practice is not always training. Sometimes it is maintenance: joint prep, walking, breath, short stance holds, visualization, journaling one line. The tool list should be small enough to remember when depleted.

A starter toolkit:

• Three-minute breath: inhale four, exhale six, no forcing.
• Two-minute zanshin: after any task, pause, eyes soft, notice shoulders.
• One-line journal: best correction received, best correction given.
• Micro-kihon: ten repetitions of a basic with one explicit constraint.

Tools fail when they become performance for an imaginary audience. Do them privately. Let them be boring.