Anxiety Exhaustion Relief — A Guided Meditation for When Anxiety Has Drained You
Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief
Calming Anxiety
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Join Martin Hewlett, clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic, for a 10-minute vagus nerve reset and visualization designed to help you put down the heavy stone of exhaustion.
Episode Chapters
- 0:00 – Understanding Anxiety Exhaustion
- 0:30 – Welcome from Martin Hewlett
- 1:00 – Vagus Nerve Reset: Biological Off-Switch
- 2:30 – The Still Lake: Visualization for Letting Go
- 5:00 – Affirmations for Nervous System Recovery
- 8:30 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Exhaustion Relief
- 9:15 – Returning to Your Day & Final Message
- I give my nervous system permission to rest.
- The tiredness I feel is not weakness; it is proof of how hard I have been trying.
- I am allowed to put down the weight of anxiety.
- My body knows how to restore itself when I let it.
- I am safe. I am still. I am enough exactly as I am right now.
- Name it as Anxiety, Not Failure: Remind yourself: "This is my nervous system, not my character." This reframe reduces secondary anxiety.
- One Small Restorative Act: Choose one gentle thing that fills you up—a warm drink, five minutes outside, or a favorite song.
- Reduce the Input: Give your brain a break from the "information storm." Just 20 minutes of less scrolling or news can make a measurable difference.
Please share this episode with anyone you know who is feeling drained today. Your support helps others find the quiet they need.
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| 0:00.0 | If anxiety has left you exhausted today, bone tired, not from what you've done, but from what |
| 0:08.0 | you've been feeling, then this is exactly where you need to be. |
| 0:13.3 | That tiredness is real, that rain is real, and in the next ten minutes we're going |
| 0:20.3 | to start to fill you back up. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome. This is calming anxiety. I'm Martin Hewlett, clinical hypnotherapist and former |
| 0:31.4 | paramedic. I've sat with people at the end of their tether, truly exhausted by fear. And I want you to know this. |
| 0:42.1 | The fatigue that anxiety creates is one of the most misunderstood and underestimated symptoms |
| 0:49.8 | there is. You are not lazy. You are not weak. Your nervous system has simply been working |
| 0:58.8 | over time. Let's give it some rest. So find your quiet place now. Somewhere where you can |
| 1:09.8 | sit or lie down, wherever feels the most supportive, and if it's |
| 1:15.6 | safe to do so, gently close your eyes. We're going to begin with a vagus nerve reset, |
| 1:24.6 | a biological off switch for the exhausted, anxious mind. |
| 1:30.3 | You'll breathe in slowly through your nose for a count of four. |
| 1:34.3 | You'll hold for two and then breathe out through your mouth for a long, slow count of six. |
| 1:43.3 | Ready, with me. In, two, three, four, hold two. Exhale, two, three, four, five, six. |
| 2:07.0 | The long out breath activates your parasympathetic nervous system. |
| 2:11.1 | It tells every cell in your body. |
| 2:13.7 | The emergency is over. |
| 2:16.9 | You can rest now. Let's do that again together. Ready? In two, three, four. Hold two and out. |
| 2:30.3 | Two, three, four, five, six. |
| 2:38.9 | Feel your shoulders drop. |
| 2:41.7 | Feel your jaw loosen. |
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