If you're listening to this right now, your mind has likely been doing something incredibly

exhausting today, scanning, monitoring, checking your pulse or your breath, searching for something

wrong.

I want you to know as someone who spent years working in emergency care that what you're

feeling is simply your anxiety, doing its job just a little too well.

It's a false alarm.

You are safe.

My name is Martin.

I'm a clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic.

And today we'll turn down the volume on that alarm together.

So find your quiet place now.

Somewhere comfy, you can sit or lie down. The choice is yours.

And if it's safe, close your eyes and turn off the world outside.

To settle the nervous system, we're going to use a sighing breath, a biological off switch.

We'll take a deep breath in through the nose and then a long, slow sigh, out through the mouth.

Ready? Let's do that together. In, all the way, feel the lungs, expand, hold.

Now out, an audible sigh.

Relax.

Just keep doing that as I talk.

A deep breath in through the nose, hold at the top and then just melt as you breathe out.

Feel your shoulders loosen, just dropping away from your ears.

As you continue this rhythm, let's do a quick little triage for your physical body.

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