Deep Sleep for Overthinking A 10-Minute Anxiety Relief Guided Meditation
Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief
Calming Anxiety
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Deep Sleep for Overthinking: A 10-Minute Anxiety Relief Guided MeditationAre you struggling to quiet a racing mind before bed? If your "what-ifs" are keeping you from the rest you deserve, this session is your nervous system reset.In today’s solo show, clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic Martin Hewlett guides you through a powerful somatic sleep-maxing protocol. By shifting from cognitive "overdrive" to pure physical sensation, we bypass the amygdala and signal to your brain that it is safe to drift into deep physiological recovery.
Whether you are dealing with nighttime anxiety, work stress, or just need a better sleep hygiene routine, this 10-minute guided meditation is designed to bore the brain into a state of blissful stillness.Inside This Episode:
- 0:00 – Breathwork for Immediate Calm
- 2:00 – The Somatic Nervous System Reset (Body Scan: Feet to Thighs)
- 4:52 – The "Mental Archive" Visualization
- 5:35 – Sleep Affirmations for a Quiet Mind
- 8:24 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Better Sleep
- 9:46 – Heartfelt Outro & Community CTA
- "I am safe, I am grounded, I am here."
- "My bed is a sanctuary, not a place for worry time."
- "I release the need to solve tomorrow's problems tonight."
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Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.
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| 0:00.0 | Take a long, slow breath in. |
| 0:04.0 | And as you exhale, imagine the weight of the day just dropping away. |
| 0:12.0 | You've been on for long enough. Now it's time to simply be. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's begin. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome. I'm Martin, clinical hypnotherapist, former paramedic. This is calming anxiety, |
| 0:29.6 | and this is deep sleep for overthinking. Specifically designed to help you quiet erasing mind. |
| 0:40.3 | If you need more structured support, find my anxiety breaker course at calming anxiety.fm. |
| 0:49.3 | I will now assume that you're lying down, the lights are off. |
| 0:57.5 | The intent now will start with the somatic nervous system reset. |
| 1:04.5 | Think of this as your ultimate sleep maxing tool, moving your body from alert to rest by focusing on pure sensation. |
| 1:19.6 | Bring your awareness now to your feet. Wiggle your toes. Let them go heavy, feel the soles of your feet soften against the sheets, |
| 1:34.3 | and with every breath imagine a warm wave of calm, like summer sunshine flowing through every fibre of your feet. |
| 1:50.0 | With every out breath the wave ebbs and flows, but intensifies. Imagine it now as it flows |
| 1:59.2 | upwards through your ankles and into your calves. |
| 2:03.6 | Feel the bed beneath them. |
| 2:06.6 | But on the next in-breath, ever so carefully, just tense the calf muscle, just enough to say hello to it. |
| 2:16.6 | And then as you breathe out, |
| 2:18.3 | relax, release the tension, |
| 2:23.3 | and be mindful of the difference |
| 2:28.3 | between a tensed body and a relaxed body. |
| 2:33.3 | Out breath after out breath. body and a relaxed body. |
| 2:35.0 | Out breath after out breath, you release the day's tension, the muscles go soft, the fibers |
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