You've come here today to find some quiet, but if anxiety still feels like it's quietly humming in the background, you're not alone.

I've created something called the Anxiety Circuit Breaker, a gentle, guided course designed to help you interrupt anxious spirals and feel steady again. If you would like to explore

it, you can visit calminganxiety.fm. But for now, there's nothing you need to do. Let's settle in together

and focus on the present moment.

If your chest feels tight and your mind is screaming that you just can't calm down,

I hear you.

You don't have to think your way out of this.

We are going to use your biology to do the work for you.

Just follow my voice. You are safe here.

I'm Martin, clinical hypnotherapist, and this is calming anxiety.

We're going to use the 1 to 2 ratio, the brake pedal for your nervous system.

We inhale for 3 and then we let the exhale double to 6.

Let's begin.

Inhale 2, three.

Exhale, five, four, three, two, one.

Inhale, two, three.

Exhale, five, four, three, two, one.

Keep the rhythm going if you can whilst I talk, in through the nose and a slow, sighing breath out through the mouth.

Let's do that again, though my count ready. Inhale two three.

Exhale two, three, four, five five six again in your own mind if you can continue but hear these words.

I am not my thoughts.

I am the space through which they pass, like clouds in a stormy sky.

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