You Are Allowed to Rest Daily Guided Affirmations for an Exhausted Mind

Speaker 1: If you're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix, if your mind is busy even when your body is still. This one is for you. Ten minutes, just for you. Let's begin. Welcome to calming anxiety. I'm Martin Hewlett, a clinical hypnotherapist and former front line paramedic. I've sat with people at their most exhausted, they're most frightened, they're most overwhelmed. And what I know from both medicine and from my years of this work, is that your nervous system is not broken. It's simply tired, and tired things need rest, not punishment. So let's give it some. So find your quiet place now, somewhere comfy to sit or lie down, whichever you prefer, where you won't be disturbed for a while, and if it's safe, close your eyes. Before we do anything, let's just breathe. So with your hands resting open, if you can, palms facing upward, in a small signal to your body that it doesn't need to hold on, breathe in for your nose for a four counts, hold for two, and then out through your mouth for six. Ready with me in two three four hold to exhale two three four five six. That long breath out activates your vagus nerve, your body's very own calming system. You don't have to do anything clever. You just have to breathe one more.

I'm together ready in two three four, whole too out two three four five six, and just let your breathing return to its own natural rhythm. Now there is nothing to force here, There is nothing to achieve, but for a moment within your own imagination, give yourself permission, permission to stop, to put everything down, not forever, just for now, just for these few minutes. Imagine you're somewhere quiet. It doesn't have to be exotic or beautiful, just safe. Maybe it's a room you love, or a garden, or simply a chair by window with the light coming in, soft and golden. Wherever feels like relief to you. Notice how that place feels on your skin, the temperature, the stillness of the air. And within this place, nobody needs you. Nothing is overdue. Your phone is not ringing, your mind is not keeping score. You are simply here, and here is enough. Breathe into that. Feel how your shoulders might soften just a little, how your jaw might loosen, how the weight you carry, and you carry so much, might just for now be set down at the door. You didn't earn this rest through perfection. You earned it by making it this far. And making it this far, my friend took everything you had. Now within your quiet imagination, I'd like you to see these words forming, clear and steady. Repeat them gently within your own mind, Let them settle, Let them land somewhere deeper than thought. I am allowed to rest. My worth is not measured by how much I produce. I release the need to justify my exhaustion.

I am doing enough. I am enough. My body is wise.

My nervous system is not my enemy. I give myself the same patience I would give someone I love. Just float now for a moment more. Let those words move through you like water. You don't have to hold them. They'll find their own place. And then, once more, with all the weight of what you've carried, let these words be true for you today. I am allowed to rest.

My worth is not measured by how much I produce.

I release the need to justify my exhaustion. I am doing enough. I am enough. My body is wise, my nervous system is not my enemy. I give myself the same patience I would give someone I love. And as you hold on to this calm, here are your three daily caring tips to carry with you. One the permission pause once to day. When you notice yourself pushing through fatigue, stop for just thirty seconds. Put your hands on a flat surface, a table, your thighs, the floor, feel something solid beneath you, and say quietly, I am allowed to stop. That pause is not weakness. In clinical terms, it is nervous system regulation. Two the one thing reframe. When the list feels impossible, ask yourself, what is the one thing that actually matters to day? Not the ten things, just the one. Give that thing your attention. Everything else is to morrow's problems and to morrow's you is more rested than to day. Three. The body check in twice to day without judgment. Ask yourself, where am I holding tension right now? The jaw, the shoulders, the hands, just noticing it, naming it, begins to release it. You don't have to fix it, you just have to see it now. Rest and just float within this singular moment in your lifeline as you take back control, as you love and reunite all that you are, mind, body, and song. Because simply put, my friend, you are worth now. Time to bring your awareness back. Gently wiggle your fingers and toes. Take one deeper breath in and on the outbreath, let a little bit more tension go, and when you're ready, softly open your eyes. Thank you for being here today, for choosing ten minutes of gentleness for yourself in a world that really tells you that you can if you'd like to go further, to gently break the cycle of anxiety rather than just manage it day by day. My anxiety circuit break, of course, is waiting for you at Calming Anxiety Dot FM five focused clinical hypnotherapy sessions. It's only sixty seven dollars and it's helped thousands of people find real lasting ground. Take care, my friend, and simply smile whenever you can. Positivity when you look in the mirror, and then in everything, be kind,