Welcome, Friend.
Still·point holds two kinds of practice.
In calm water, two build your capacity — E·R·A and Noting — being the sea that includes every wave. When a craving rises, two help you be with the wave itself — Being with Waves and RAIN.
When you're ready, take a breath and proceed.
Practices for when the sea is calm.
E·R·A
Exhale · Rest · Allow.
Discover rest that is already here, and the one who notices.
Noting practice
Label whatever arises — thought, feeling, body, craving. Every note quietly proves who is watching.
You can't win fighting a craving—but you can let the craving pass through like a storm. Welcome this storm rather than turning away from it, and watch the clouds roll in without resistance. Let the lightning flash, feel the cold rain ripple through your body, and observe the wind shaking your branches. Anchor yourself deeply into the earth beneath you, breathe through the heavy air, and remember: you are not the storm. You are the mountain it breaks against, the sky that holds it, and the steady ground that remains long after it passes.
When waves rise, these two practices are here.
When a craving rises, allow it to pass.
Being with Waves
A craving is here. Meet it with the breathing circle — watch it rise, crest, and pass.
RAIN
Recognize · Allow · Investigate · Nurture.
A four-step path from the middle of the storm to the one watching it — hands-on or quiet text.
Let your shoulders drop.
The wave passed.
Recognize
What is here right now? Craving, anger, dread, restlessness? Name it quietly to yourself. You cannot surf a wave you haven't seen.
RAIN — four steps to the watcher
Choose how you'd like to walk them today. Both paths end in the same place.
Recognize
What is here right now? Naming it softly is the first meeting.
Allow
Let it be here. You don't have to like it — only to stop evicting it. If you like, rest a thumb gently on the circle and take three slow breaths with it.
Investigate
Feeling flooded? Ground with 3×3 first
Pause, take one deliberate breath, and name to yourself:
- 3 things you can see — a chair, a pen, the window.
- 3 things you can feel — the weight of your phone, the chair at your back, your feet pressing into the floor.
- 3 slow breaths — following the air moving in and out through your nose.
Where does it live? Tap the place in the body.
Its texture?
Nurture
Offer this part of you what it needs — a kind word, a hand on the chest, the quiet message: I'm here, and this is allowed. Meet yourself as you would someone you love. Then rest a few breaths as the one large enough to hold it all.
Whatever arises,
give it a soft label.
Eyes half-closed if you like. When something appears, tap what it was. Then let it go. No judging, no chasing.
Notice something?
Breathing … inhale, exhale, rest. Let your breath carry you, nurture you and nourish you. Notice at the end of the exhale … the small pause that feels like a rest. Just notice … you can't do anything wrong. Let your breath be your guide.
Eyes closed or softly open — both are fine.
We are what we are looking for.
Craving, before and after
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.
You reached for help.
That is the skill, working.
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).
Keep Still·point one tap away
Still·point works best added to your home screen — it opens full-screen like a normal app, and works offline once installed.
iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button (the square with an upward arrow), scroll down, and tap Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): tap the menu ⋮ in the top corner, then Add to Home screen (or Install app).
No account, no app store — it's yours in a couple of taps.
Why this app exists
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 craving, nor fighting it, but meeting it.
The purpose
Every practice here trains one capacity: the ability to stay present with a craving — 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 craving 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.
How to use it
Little and often beats long and rare. One six-minute practice a day is enough to begin. Meet mild cravings 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.
What this app is not
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.
If a wave carries you for a while
It may happen that you use, or act on a craving. 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.
The Still·point Circle
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).
Next circle Every second Wednesday · 19:00–19:30 (Amsterdam time) · tap to joinIf you want to go deeper
The E·R·A practice — Exhale · Rest · Allow — is the quietest thing in this app, and for some people it opens a door. The rest at the bottom of the exhale is a place you already visit every night in deep sleep; here you visit it awake. If you feel drawn to explore what that stillness is — no belief required, only curiosity — ERA-Institute hosts deepening sessions from time to time. You'll hear about them in the Still·point Circle, or you can write to paul@era-institute.com. This is entirely optional: the practices work whether or not you ever look behind them.
Your privacy
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 practice as studied in randomized clinical trials (see Settings for details). ERA-Institute · paul@era-institute.com
You
Your anchors
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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