If the long golden evenings of summer make you feel like you should be doing
something with all that beautiful light and instead you just feel restless.
Unable to actually settle in, this glimmer's meditation is for you.
Tonight we're going to use the slipping light of a late summer sunset to
retrain your nervous system to notice safety. Not just scan for what's next.
Let's go. Welcome to calming anxiety. I'm Martin,
clinical hypnotherapist and frontline paramedic and every day I create these
10-minute guided meditations to help you find calm and ease anxiety using real
evidence-based tools. If you're new here, do hit follow so that tomorrow's
session finds you automatically. Now find your quiet place where you won't be
disturbed somewhere to sit or lie down. Let's settle the body before we go
looking for the glimmers. Let's start with the breath. In through the nose for
holding gently, put two at the top and then out through the mouth of the six long
and slow. The extended out breath shifts the nervous system out of scanning an
into calm and peaceful. Ready with me in two three four whole two three without two
three four five six one more time with me. Ready in
two three four pause two relax two three four five six good. Let your breathing
settle into its own natural rhythm now. Now in your mind's eye I want you to
picture one of those long summer evening the kind where the sun takes its time
where it doesn't rush towards the dark. Picture the low light the ambours,
slanting sideways through a window or through leaves of a tree catching the dust
in the air and turning it to go. Notice the particular color of it not
the light of midday but something warmer heavier or most the color of honey. If you
were standing in it right now you would feel it land on your skin differently to
any time of the day. It's softer, lower, less demanding. Listen now in your
imagination to the sounds that belong only to this kind of evening. Third settling
rather than singing. A distant clink of ice in a glass. Someone's laughter
carried on the air that's finally starting to cool. The particular hush that
arrives when a long hot day finally breathes out. This is a glimmer not a big
moment not something you have to chase or create just a small ordinary cue that
tells your nervous system quite literally at a level of neuroception that you are
safe right now. Stay here within it for a moment longer. There is nothing you need to
do with the light except notice it. Breathe it in, hold it, this is your moment.
Now let's bring in some affirmations visualizing them in your thoughts. We'll
spring them softly allowing them to land. I let the light linger the way it
lingers in the sky.
There is no rush in this evening and there is none in me. Small moments of
gold are still gold. I notice I do not chase. My nervous system no safety when it
feels it. Allow the words now to drift a little deeper the way the light keeps
softening as the evening goes on and then once more with real intention that each
one settle into the part of you that's been waiting all day for permission to slow
down. I let the light linger the way it lingers in the sky.
There is no rush in this evening and there is none in me.
Small moments of gold are still gold. I notice I do not chase. My nervous system no
safety when it feels it and deeper and deeper now you allow yourself to drift in
this natural trance like state harmony within every breath relax deeply and
safely every out breath discarding the negativity the tension every in
breath instilling within your thoughts your consciousness this ability to capture
the glimmers whenever you need them wherever you are
before we end before we close today's session take with you today's three
galee caring tips one the golden hour pause sometime this evening step outside for
two minutes during the golden hour and just notice the color of the light on
something near you your skin the leaves the pavement not to photograph it not to
capture it just to register it to the slow exhale switch if a beautiful evening
makes you feel guilty for not doing something productive with it that's worth
noticing try one long slow out breath instead it's permission to simply be in a
moment rather than needing to use it for something and three name it once before
you sleep tonight name one glimmer from today out loud or write it down even
just a sentence naming a glimmer is what actually strengthens the neural pathway
it really is the difference between a moment passing through you and a moment
that stays now gently my friend bring your awareness back into the room
around you wiggle your fingers and toes take one full breath in and as you breathe
out stretch through your arms and your legs and when you're ready open your eyes
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have a lovely evening smile often and to the world around you be kind