Positive Affirmations for a Happier Life
Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief
Calming Anxiety
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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Join the Anchored Community Before we begin, a quick word about my new app, Anchored. It is a dedicated space built around everything you love about this show, featuring daily calm sessions and unique tools I've created just for you.
- Become a Founding Member: By donating to our GoFundMe, you help support the independent development of this project.
- Lifetime Access: As a heartfelt thank you, all founding members receive free lifetime access to all premium content within the app.
- Updates & Progress: See what the app looks like and how it works at calminganxiety.org/anchored.
- 00:00 – Intro: The Anchored App & Community Support
- 00:59 – The Philosophy of Happiness as a Choice
- 01:33 – Guided Breathing: The 4-2-6 Technique
- 03:22 – Visualization: Finding the "Ember" of Quiet Joy
- 06:55 – Daily Affirmations for a Happier State
- 08:30 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for a Happier Soul
- 10:45 – Closing Thoughts & Community Call to Action
- I choose joy in the small moments of today.
- I am allowed to feel good right now exactly as I am.
- My happiness is not selfish; it is my natural state.
- I notice beauty, I receive warmth, I allow peace.
- I am creating a life I genuinely love, one small choice at a time.
- The 60-Second Joy Spot: Spend one full minute today doing nothing but experiencing something you love—a warm drink, fresh air, or a favorite song. No scrolling, just presence.
- The Gratitude Breath: Before sleep, take three slow breaths. With each exhale, name one thing that felt good about your day to shift your brain away from "threat scanning".
- Smile First: Tomorrow morning, try to smile before checking your phone or the news. The physical act of smiling signals to your nervous system that you are safe and well.
I'm Martin. This is Calming Anxiety, and in everything you do today, be kind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there my friend. |
| 0:02.0 | Before we begin, just a quick word again about the app called Anchored. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a dedicated app built around everything you love about this show. |
| 0:13.0 | Daily Calm, guided sessions, and some new tools that are unique that I've created. |
| 0:20.0 | If you follow the link in the show notes to |
| 0:23.6 | the GoFundMe, you'll become a founding member and with that you'll get free lifetime access |
| 0:31.0 | to all the premium content. Head over to calminganxiety.org forward slash anchored. |
| 0:39.3 | There are updates on what the app looks like and how it will work. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.3 | A genuinely huge thank you to everyone who has already donated |
| 0:50.3 | and sent me the most beautiful emails. |
| 0:53.3 | You are the reason I do this. Now let's |
| 0:57.0 | begin. Happiness isn't waiting for you somewhere up ahead. It isn't hiding behind the |
| 1:04.5 | next achievement, the next holiday or the next version of your life. It's here, right now, in the space between one breath and the next. |
| 1:16.3 | Today, we're going to find it, and we're going to remind your soul that joy isn't something |
| 1:23.3 | that happens to you. |
| 1:25.2 | It's something you choose. |
| 1:30.3 | So let's choose it together right now. |
| 1:41.3 | Find your quiet place. Somewhere comfy, somewhere to sit or lie down, in a bed on a sofa, in the car, wherever you are right now. |
| 1:47.0 | And if it's safe, close your eyes or simply soften your gaze downward. |
| 1:55.0 | When you're ready, breathe in through your nose for a count of four. |
| 2:01.6 | Be mindful at the top between the in and the out breath as we hold for two and then out |
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