1201: From Panic To Presence: A Meditation For Peace During Busy Times
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation designed to bring peace and calm to individuals stressed by holidays, work and myriad other life challenges. Through this meditation, you will be able to let go of your current worries, struggles and concerns and focus on yourself and the space around you. Unwind and let go through this simple yet powerful guided meditation. Listen and relax today!
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Chapters
0:26 Introduction to Meditation
5:06 Embracing the Present Moment
10:40 The Power of Acceptance
14:04 Surrendering into Being
15:48 Deepening the Experience
18:32 Conclusion and Call to Action
Summary
In this episode, I guide listeners through a calming and restorative meditation aimed at fostering peace amid the chaos of busy times. As we navigate the often overwhelming demands of daily life, particularly during pressure-filled seasons, I emphasize the importance of transitioning from a state of panic to one of presence and acceptance. This meditation serves as an invitation to slow down, embrace the stillness, and return to our natural state of calm.
I begin by encouraging you to create a quiet space where you can comfortably situate yourself, whether that be sitting, lying down, or cocooned in your favorite blanket. It's essential to allow your body to feel supported and to grant yourself the permission to disengage from the burdens of your day. As we settle in, I emphasize the first steps of the practice—taking deep, conscious breaths, and noticing the weight of your body in its current state. Each breath serves as a reminder that it is perfectly okay to simply be, without the incessant need to do or achieve.
Throughout the meditation, I guide you to release the tension often held in our bodies by inviting you to visualize letting go of tight grips and pressures. As we explore the concept of surrendering, I introduce the metaphor of holding a rope tightly, symbolizing the strain of managing our stressors. By loosening our grip, we create space for tranquility and self-acceptance. I encourage you to bring to mind an aspect of your life that feels heavy or stressful, emphasizing that this practice is not about fixing or solving problems, but rather about acknowledging and softening around them without resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the anxiety coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:23.1 | Aloha. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 0:34.1 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its |
| 0:40.5 | natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I'm going to be offering a meditation, a guided |
| 0:48.9 | meditation for peace during busy times. It's like going from panic and rush to presence. And in today's |
| 0:58.0 | episode, I want you to either join me now or come back when you can to go deep into a guided |
| 1:06.7 | meditation on accepting, surrendering, and actually learning to just be. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm offering you something many of us deeply need right now, especially as we head into the |
| 1:22.2 | hectic pressure-filled, emotionally loaded time of year. We're slowing everything way down. We're |
| 1:31.2 | softening our grip on the world and dropping into a guided meditation, focused today on |
| 1:40.7 | accepting, surrendering, and learning how to just be. Often we think we have to be doing. |
| 1:49.5 | Everything is doing. But I want you to think about being, just being. It's okay. |
| 1:59.2 | If you've been feeling stretched thin, if you notice yourself bracing for the next wave of stress, |
| 2:07.2 | if your mind keeps pulling you toward the worst case scenarios or into the warmhole of panic, |
| 2:15.2 | this meditation is here to help you pause, to re-center and actually |
| 2:21.8 | remember that you don't have to hold everything all at once. Find a quiet spot and get |
| 2:29.6 | comfortable and let this moment be just for you. You deserve ease. You deserve a break. You deserve rest. |
| 2:39.9 | And you absolutely deserve a little space to reconnect with the calm inside you. |
| 2:48.1 | Today's episode is sponsored by Aura Frames. If you're anything like me, the holidays can |
| 2:53.0 | bring a little extra stress, especially when you're still searching for that perfect last-minute gift. |
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