I Can See In Colour - A New Beginning

Today, I want to talk about the moment everything changed colour, not a metaphor, not a poetic turn of phrase. I mean literally. Yesterday morning after surgery, I opened my eye and the world was in colour again, vivid, saturated, glorious colour. The blues were blue, the greens were green, and white, wow.

I sat there in the recovery chair and just stopped, because that is what this show has always been about. Not grander pithenies, just the moment you stop long enough to actually see what's in front of you. If you've been struggling lately, anxious or overwhelmed, stuck in your head, today's session is for you. We're going to practice the art at the new beginning of seeing your life, your breath, your moment, as if for the very first time.

Hi there, welcome to Carming Anxiety. I'm Martin, clinical hypnotherapist, former frontline paramedic, and now, visual. Every single day, I create this free, 10 minute practice for you. And I want you to know that I do it because I genuinely believe it changes lives.

And speaking of change, some of you know, well all of you, that I've been building anchored, the mind from the sap. Well, and this is no exaggeration. Partially visually impaired, yesterday, I saw it for the first time. I know I've built it, but I can now see it.

And I got to say, it's a bit gorgeous. So it'll be out in July. I have a few more days of the GoFundMeRing. If you want to, please do support it.

But right now, let's breathe. Find your position. You can sit, lie down, wherever you are. Let your hands rest open.

Arms outward. Now, close your eyes if you want or soften your gaze. And just for a moment, don't do anything. Just arrive here.

Let's breathe together. We'll just use a simple, relaxed out breath. The whole point is you breathe out longer than you breathe in. When you breathe out longer, you activate that calming nerve in your body, your heart rate slow, your nervous system shifts here.

You don't have to try to relax. The breath does it for you. Breathe in slowly through your nose. Pull the chest, fill the belly, and now let it go.

A long, slow out breath through slightly parted lips. Give air sound as you let it go. Let your shoulders drop. Again, in through the nose.

And then relax, unwind, truly, sinking down deeper and deeper with every breath, with every beat of your heart. I've watched this happen hundreds of times. The moment the emergency passes, the breath was the first thing to change. Before thought, before words.

The breath remembered it was safe. And that's what you're doing right now. Telling your body through breath alone, that this moment is safe. With each out breath, let your body get a little heavier, or jaw soften, let the muscles surround your eye.

There's nothing you need to hold right now. Imagine standing at a window, and on the other side of that glass, the world is going on without you. Dizzy, loud, complicated, but you're here on this side. Warm, still, safe, and slowly, the window begins to clear.

The fog lips, and you see through that glass, everything is extraordinary, not because it's different, but because you finally were still enough to see it. The colours, the light, the ordinary, beautiful real world, that was there all along.

You are here, you are present, and within this beautiful stillness, within the quiet beneath your thoughts, I want you to hear these words. Don't analyse them, don't weigh them, just let them in. I am present in this moment, this moment is enough. I give myself permission to begin again right now.

I notice the beauty that is already here.

My breath connects me to the life I am living right now.

I am calm, I am open, and I am ready to receive what this day brings.

I am a little bit deeper, letting those words settle, by light settling in a room, drift gently, safely, beautifully down into the most wonderful, natural, trans-like state of peace.

Your body is calm, your mind is quiet, and somewhere beneath the noise, there is a version of you who already knows how to begin again. I give myself permission to begin again right now.

I notice the beauty that is already here.

My breath connects me to the life I am living right now.

I am calm, I am open, and I am ready to receive what this day brings.

Here are your three daily caring tips to take with you wherever you are.

One, the colour scan. At some point today, before you reach for your phone, before the day gets whole of you, look up and find one colour, just one. The blue of the sky, the green of the leaf, the warm gold of a lamp. Name it quietly to yourself.

This is your moment of presence. That is your new beginning for the day. Two, the reset breath. If the pace of the day picks up and you feel yourself tightening, just exhale.

One, long, slow out breath. Longer than the end, you don't need to stop, you don't need to find a quiet place. You just need that one out breath. Three, begin again.

If the day doesn't go as planned, if the anxiety creeps in, if you make a mistake, if the morning goes sideways, remember this, every breath is a new beginning. You don't have to wait for a new year, a new week or a new day. The next breath is enough to start over. Now gently wiggle your fingers and toes.

Bring your awareness back into the room around you. Take a deep breath in, then as you exhale, stretch out the muscles in your arms and legs, and then open your eye. Thank you. Truly, for being here with me today.

You showed up for yourself and that matters more than you know. If this session touched something in you, please share it with one person who might need it. Your word of mouth is how we reach the people who are quietly struggling. There are no algorithm tricks for this.

There's no big sponsor. It's just me recording this in my van. So you telling someone out is all the thanks I need. If you'd like to support what we're building, there's a couple of days left on GoFundMe, but head to calminganxiety.fm.

Over there, I have the weekly blog, I have the uplift page which is beautiful moments of news from around the world. And there is the anxiety circuit break, at only $67. Have a lovely day, my friend. I'm just going to celebrate.

I can see. I can read the screen I'm recording on. And I want to share that happiness. I want to tell everyone.

I'll let you go. Smile often. Please love who you are. And above all, be kind.