A craving is a wave moving through you. These practices train you to stand where the wave can't reach — not by fighting it, but by discovering you were never it.
A craving is here. Meet it with the breathing circle — watch it rise, crest, and pass.
Recognize · Allow · Investigate · Note. A four-step path from the middle of the storm to the one watching it.
Label whatever arises — thought, feeling, body, urge. Every note quietly proves who is watching.
What is here right now? Craving, anger, dread, restlessness? Name it quietly to yourself. You cannot surf a wave you haven't seen.
Eyes half-closed if you like. When something appears, tap what it was. Then let it go. No judging, no chasing.
Each pair of points is one wave you met. Over weeks, watch two things: the after-line sinking, and something quieter — needing the chart less.
A craving, however violent, is a wave — it cannot make you do anything, and it will pass. But you do not have to hold it alone.
Add a personal anchor A sponsor, friend, or family member — set their number in Settings so they're one tap away. Your local helpline Set your country's addiction helpline in Settings. Find a helpline — any country findahelpline.com · free, confidential support lines worldwideIf you are in immediate danger or considering harming yourself, call your local emergency number now (112 in most of Europe, 999 in the UK, 911 in the US).
If you are reading this, there is probably something in your life — a substance, a habit, a behaviour — that feels stronger than you. We want to say something clearly at the start: there is nothing wrong with you as a person. Cravings are not a weakness of character. They are waves of energy moving through a nervous system that, at some point, found this way to cope. That deserves respect, not shame.
Most approaches teach you to fight these waves — to resist, distract, out-think them. And if you have ever tried, you know how exhausting that fight is, and how often the fighting itself seems to feed the wave. This app exists to offer a third way: neither obeying the urge, nor fighting it, but meeting it.
Every practice here trains one capacity: the ability to stay present with an urge — to feel it in the body, watch it rise, crest and pass — without being commanded by it. A craving is a wave. Left unfed, most pass within minutes. Each time you meet one with attention instead of struggle, something quietly changes: the urge loses a little of its authority, and you discover a little more of something else.
That something else is the real purpose of this app. Underneath every wave there is the one who notices the wave. That part of you has watched craving and never craved. It has watched fear and never trembled. It was never broken — and it does not need fixing. The practices don't create this steadiness; they help you recognise what has been here all along. With that recognition comes what most of us are truly looking for: not a life without waves, but the freedom of no longer being dragged by them.
Little and often beats long and rare. One three-minute practice a day is enough to begin. Meet mild urges first — the pull toward your phone, a snack, a coffee — before you invite the bigger waves. Rate the intensity before and after each practice: over the weeks, you will be building your own evidence, on your own terms.
When a strong craving arrives, use the app right then if you can — that is what it is for. And if a moment ever feels like too much to hold alone, the Help Now button is on every screen: your own anchor person, a helpline, or emergency support, one tap away. Reaching for help is not a failure of the practice. It is the practice.
Still·point supports recovery; it does not replace treatment, medication, therapy or human care. If you are working with a doctor, therapist or support service, this app sits alongside them, never instead of them. And it is not a test you can fail. There are no broken streaks here, no judgement. If you miss a week, the practice is simply waiting, the way still water waits. You begin again — that, too, is the practice.
It may happen that you use, or act on an urge. This erases nothing of what you have built, and it says nothing about your worth. A wave carried you for a moment — that is all. There is no contest here, so there is nothing to lose: every practice you have done is still yours, and the watching in you is untouched. It always is. When you are ready, you simply return — one breath, one practice, today if you can. No judgement, no starting over. Just continuing.
Every two weeks we gather on Zoom for thirty minutes — an open, unhurried space to share how the practices are landing for you, what the app could do better, and what you are noticing in yourself. Your experience shapes what Still·point becomes.
Cameras optional, first names are enough, and listening is as welcome as speaking. The Circle is a feedback and practice community — it is not therapy or crisis support (for that, the Help Now button is always here).
Everything you do here stays on this device. No account, no tracking, nothing sent anywhere. Your journey belongs to you.
The wave passes. You remain. You knew that before you had words for it — the practices simply help you remember.
Still·point is built on attentional training as studied in randomized clinical trials (see Settings for details). ERA-Institute · paul@era-institute.com
Privacy: everything you do in Still·point stays on this device. No account, no tracking, nothing sent anywhere.
What this is: Still·point trains attentional skills studied in randomized clinical trials of mindfulness-based interventions for addiction (Bowen et al., JAMA Psychiatry 2014; Brewer et al., Drug & Alcohol Dependence 2011). It supports recovery; it does not replace treatment, medication, or professional care.
For organisations: Still·point can be integrated into existing care pathways, with staff training and outcome measurement. Contact ERA-Institute.
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