Calming Anxiety
Raising Positivity - Anchore Your Day - 10 Minute Guided Meditation
Choosing to Rise Beyond the DarknessIn a world full of "toxic positivity" that tells you to just smile through the pain, it can be hard to find real hope. True positivity isn't about ignoring life's struggles; it is the grounded, honest, and sustainable kind. It is acknowledging the hard days while still remembering that you are allowed to look forward to the future.In today's session, we explore how to retune our perspective and anchor ourselves to genuine joy.
Using a calming 4-2-6 breathing practice, we will intentionally release the negative anchors of the past and the heavy weight of expectations. We take up the space we deserve, open our minds to deep relaxation, and choose to rise—not perfectly, and not without difficulty, but with courage. Find a comfortable place, drop your shoulders, and allow these reassuring truths to land in the sanctuary of your mind.
Building Our Sanctuary: An Update on the "Anchored" AppI have been incredibly moved and deeply emotional over the staggering support for our upcoming mobile app, Anchored. This dedicated mindfulness space is designed to hold this entire community's journey—bringing every meditation, breathing technique, and moment of calm into one beautiful, ad-free space with a unique nighttime light mode and custom breathing systems.This project is the culmination of my life's work, born out of a desire to create a tool so that someone, somewhere, can find a spark of hope and no longer have to endure their darkness alone. A friend launched a GoFundMe campaign to help secure the development equipment needed to build it, and every single contribution brings us closer to the finish line.
The script
Transcribed from the audio, so the odd word may be off. Tap any line while it plays to keep the words in step with Martin's voice.
Hi there, and welcome in. This is Calming Anxiety. I'm Martin Hewlett and today we're talking about positivity. Not the toxic kind that tells you to smile through the pain, but the real kind. The grounded, honest, sustainable kind. Before we dive in though, please let me tell you about the app, Anchored. It's a dedicated app for this community. Bringing every session, every breathing exercise, every moment of calm into one place. For the premium version, all ad-free, with so much more. It's been funded through a GoFundMe set up by my friend, and it's really moving. I've been so taken back and very emotional over the support. Let's get it over the line. There's a link in the show notes, even sharing it costs nothing, but means everything. Thank you. And now, let's rise. Let's ground ourselves. Let's sit up slightly. Uncross the arms. Take a little bit more space than you think you deserve, because you deserve this space. Breathe with me.
It'll be in slowly before. We'll hold at the top, honoring the moment. And then out through the mouth, as always, for six. When you do, allow your shoulders to drop. Soften the muscles in your brow. Ready, my friend? In two, three, four, pause, two, release, two, three, four, five, six, in, two, three, four, hold, two, relax, two, three, four, five, six.
When the out breath, open your mind to the natural sense of release, of pure relaxation.
Let's do this one more time together. In two, three, four, pause, two, breathe out, two, four, five, six. You just gave yourself a minute of peace. That's not nothing. That truly is everything. Now, within this space, within your thoughts, let's share these words together, allow them to truly settle. See them in your thoughts as I say them, and then repeat them either silently or feel them on your tongue. Allow them to become part of who you are.
Today is a new beginning, whatever yesterday held, it is behind me now. I am capable of more than I currently believe. Good things are allowed to happen to me. I won't receive them. I bring something to this world that no one else can. My presence, my perception, my voice are irreplaceable. I am allowed to feel good. I am allowed to look forward. Joy is not frivolous. It is my fuel. Today, I choose to rise, not perfectly, not without difficulty, but I choose to rise. Now, relax, truly, with every out breath, just feel the weight of expectation and lifting. Feel the weight of the negative anchors of your past. Just disappear. You are worthy. Relax now. Ever deeper within the sanctuary of your consciousness. And then once more within the beauty of your mind's eye. See these words as I say them. Take note of the colour, the size and shape of the letters, and allow yourself to change. Today is a new beginning. Whatever yesterday held, it is behind me now. I am capable of more than I currently believe. Good things are allowed to happen to me. I won't receive them.
I bring something to this world that no one else can. My presence, my perception, my voice are irreplaceable. I am allowed to feel good. I am allowed to look forward to everything.
Today, I choose to rise, not perfectly, not without difficulty, but I choose to rise. And to make these parts of all that you are. Here are your three daily caring tips. 1. Start the day with one thing you are looking for, 2. However small, a good coffee, a favourite song on the drive or the evening ahead. Ank tea yourself to something good. 2. When a negative thought arrives today, just notice it.
You don't have to fight it. Just say there is that thought again. Then let it pass through like a cloud. 3. Do one thing today, purely because it brings you joy, not because it is productive, not because anyone asked you to, just because you deserve joy today. 3. Now relax, ever deeper. Love all that you are, because simply put my friend, you truly are worthy, as worthy of any of the other 8 billion souls on this planet. Love all that you are, please. 3. Now start to bring your awareness back to the day around you, with your fingers, with your toes. Take that deep breath in now, hold and then as you breathe out, stretch out the arms overhead, and gently open your eye. Thank you, thank you for letting me mention the app, Anchored. It truly is beautiful, and I know that is a bit of hyperbole and me being super positive, but it is everything I would want, and that is why I record these. My life has been moulded by the darkness I have endured, and I create these purely, so that someone, somewhere, finds them and doesn't have to endure their darkness anymore. I truly hope, one day you never need this, then my work has been, have a lovely day, truly, put your hand over your heart and love who you are.
Let's reconnect tomorrow, smile often, and then to your beautiful self, be kind.