Thank You — A Gratitude Meditation for Everything You Already Are

I'd like to start today differently. No clinical framing, no breathing technique first, just me talking to you. Something happened recently, now I want to acknowledge before we do anything else. People showed up, strangers, listeners, people I've never met from countries I may never visit, who heard that this show needed help and simply said yes.

To go fund me for the Ankit app, the messages, the donations, you. I am genuinely moved. And today's session exists because of that theme, because of gratitude, real gratitude. Thank you.

So today we go into it together. Welcome to Carming Anxiety. I'm Martin, your clinical hypnotherapist, former frontline paramedic. Over 10 million downloads, 158 countries and still every single day.

It's just me in this van and a microphone trying to reach the person who needs it. Today, that person is you and I'm genuinely glad you're here. If you'd like to be part of the Ankit app journey, the GoFundMe is still open for it, but just a couple of days, every person who donates receives a free lifetime premium access. Just send me the receipt to hello@carminganxiety.org and I'll do the rest.

Thank you. Now find your comfy place, somewhere to sit or lie down. Whatever your body is asking of you right now. Let your hands rest open, relax the shoulders and close your eye.

I just want you to breathe, not in any particular way, not for account. Just breathe, notice it, the air arriving, the chest or the belly lifting gently, the slow release on the outriff. It rarely is the most extraordinary thing in the world and it is also a miracle. You have done this without thinking every moment of every day for your entire life.

Your body has never once forgotten to breathe. This is the first thing to be grateful for today, the extraordinary faithfulness of this body that carries you. Let each breath now become just a little slower, a little softer, not forced, just allowed.

As you breathe in, let something in warmth ease, the quiet knowledge that right now in this moment you are safe. As you breathe out, let something go, the weight of the weak, the noise, the self-criticism, the list of things you haven't done yet. Just for these 10 minutes, you don't have to be anything other than what you are. And I'd like you to imagine something, right now as you sit or lie here.

This show is playing in living rooms and bedrooms and cars and kitchens in over 150 countries. One in Australia is breathing alongside you right now. Someone in Canada, someone in the Philippines, in Ireland, in South Africa, in places neither of us has ever been to. All of them like you, pressing play, looking for a moment of quiet in a loud world.

You are not alone in this. You have never been alone in this. The young, for that moment, the warmth of it, a community you didn't know you were part of, built not for anything you did, but simply from the fact that you chose to show up for yourself. Back choice, pressing play, coming here, giving yourself 10 minutes.

That is an act of self-love. Even if it didn't feel like one. Receiving care is not weakness. It takes courage to allow goodness in.

And today, you are doing exactly that. Take one slow breath in and as you exhale, let yourself simply receive what this moment is offering you. Quiet. Presence, you deserve this exactly as you are.

Now let these words find you. One on each breath. You don't have to earn them. Just receive them.

I am grateful for this body that is carried me through everything. I am worthy of love, not when I am better, but right now as I am.

I allow myself to receive kindness without guilt.

I am grateful for every person who is chosen to walk alongside me.

I love who I am becoming and I am gentle with who I am today.

Drift a little deeper now. Beneath the thinking mind, into the part of you that has sometimes struggled to believe them. We are not forcing anything today. We are simply offering the truth gently until the quiet part of you starts to accept it.

You are enough. You always have been. I am grateful for this body that is carried me through everything.

I am worthy of love, not when I am better, but right now as I am.

I allow myself to receive kindness without guilt.

I am grateful for every person who is chosen to walk alongside me.

I love who I am becoming and I am gentle with who I am today.

Good. Let the words rest now. They have done their work and so have you. And to keep this feeling of gratitude, here are today's three daily caring tips for self-worth.

One, say thank you to yourself today. Not in a grand way, just once, quietly. Ignore something your body or mind did for you today that you didn't thank it for. It woke you up.

It got you here. It kept going when it was tired. Self-gratitude is not vanity. It is the beginning of genuine self-worth.

Two, let one compliment land. When someone says something kind to you today, resist the urge to deflect it, minimize it, or immediately return it. Just say thank you. Let it sit.

Notice what it feels like to receive warmth without pushing it away. That pause is where self-worth grows. And three, write one true thing about yourself. Before you sleep tonight, write down one true and good thing about who you are.

Not something you did. Something you are. Patient, funny, trying, caring. One word, one sentence, it doesn't matter.

The act of writing it makes it real in a way that, thinking about it, never quite does. Now gently, my friend, bring your awareness back into the world around you. Wiggle your things and toes. Take one slow breath in, and then as you exhale, stretch out the arms overhead and open your eyes.

I record this show alone in a van every single day. There is no team, there is no marketing budget, there is no algorithm I can pay, there is only you, and the extraordinary thing that happens when you share this with one other person. If today's show gave you something, please send it to someone, one person, someone you thought of during this session, or someone who you know just needs a quiet 10 minutes. That one share is the reason we've reached over 10 million downloads.

It is the reason anchored is nanny ready. It is the reason I get to keep doing this. Thank you for being part of my journey, genuinely. I don't take a single one of you for granted.

Smile off to my friend and truly be kind to yourself above all else today.