Letting Go of the Past — A Meditation on Time, Wisdom and Peace
Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief
Calming Anxiety
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Setting Down the Past
In this episode, Martin explores the concept of time as a river, teaching us how to observe our past without being swept away by it. Whether you are carrying old memories, missed conversations, or difficult decisions, today we learn to view our history not as a weight, but as the wisdom that shaped our journey.
Episode Time Chapters
- 00:00 – The courage to leave things behind
- 01:03 – Coming home to the body: Breathing exercise
- 02:45 – The River Visualization: Observing the past
- 05:03 – Letters of Light: Affirmations for freedom
- 07:58 – The 3 Daily Caring Tips
- 09:24 – Closing thoughts and kindness
The companion chat in Nature for this session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSsMkIiEwZw
- I release the grip of the past and I choose the freedom of this moment.
- Every year I have lived has given me something I could not have learned any other way.
- I am not behind; I am exactly where my journey has brought me and I am ready.
- I forgive myself for the things that I did not know that I understand now.
- I carry my history with me, not as a weight, but as a wisdom.
- The Small Ceremony: Write down one thing you are choosing to release today. Draw a line through it to stop it from running in the background of your mind.
- Gift of Knowledge: Spend five minutes reflecting on yourself from ten years ago. What would you tell them? That wisdom is a hard-won gift.
- Active Becoming: Remember that at any age, you are still becoming. One small act of courage is all it takes to keep moving with the river.
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| 0:00.0 | Time moves, whether we ask it to or not. |
| 0:04.0 | And sometimes, the hardest thing isn't moving forward. |
| 0:09.0 | It's agreeing to leave something behind. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, we do that together. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello there, and welcome to calming anxiety. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Martin, clinical hypnotherapist, former frontline paramedic. |
| 0:25.6 | Every single day I come to you with a 10-minute guided meditation, |
| 0:30.6 | a clinical tool built to help you find your way back to calm, |
| 0:35.6 | gently, safely, and without judgment. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, on a day that means a great deal to me personally, I want to explore something we all carry, |
| 0:48.3 | the past, and I want to show you how to set it down. |
| 0:58.4 | Before we go anywhere, let's come home to the body. |
| 1:02.4 | So find your quiet place now. |
| 1:07.2 | You can sit or lie down somewhere you won't be disturbed. |
| 1:12.6 | Let your hands rest open and easy. And if it's safe, close your eyes when you're ready. |
| 1:16.6 | And breathe in through your nose, slowly, all the way in for a count of four. |
| 1:23.6 | With me, in two, three, four. |
| 1:29.3 | Hold and pause, release through the mouth, four, five, six. |
| 1:37.3 | Did you feel that? |
| 1:40.3 | The slowing, you're beginning to soften. |
| 1:45.1 | That's your nervous system standing down from the alert. |
| 1:49.5 | Again with me in through the nose. |
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