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If the long golden evenings of summer make you feel like you should be doing

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something with all that beautiful light and instead you just feel restless.

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Unable to actually settle in, this glimmer's meditation is for you.

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Tonight we're going to use the slipping light of a late summer sunset to

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retrain your nervous system to notice safety. Not just scan for what's next.

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Let's go. Welcome to calming anxiety. I'm Martin,

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clinical hypnotherapist and frontline paramedic and every day I create these

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10-minute guided meditations to help you find calm and ease anxiety using real

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evidence-based tools. If you're new here, do hit follow so that tomorrow's

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session finds you automatically. Now find your quiet place where you won't be

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disturbed somewhere to sit or lie down. Let's settle the body before we go

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looking for the glimmers. Let's start with the breath. In through the nose for

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holding gently, put two at the top and then out through the mouth of the six long

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and slow. The extended out breath shifts the nervous system out of scanning an

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into calm and peaceful. Ready with me in two three four whole two three without two

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three four five six one more time with me. Ready in

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two three four pause two relax two three four five six good. Let your breathing

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settle into its own natural rhythm now. Now in your mind's eye I want you to

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picture one of those long summer evening the kind where the sun takes its time

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where it doesn't rush towards the dark. Picture the low light the ambours,

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slanting sideways through a window or through leaves of a tree catching the dust

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in the air and turning it to go. Notice the particular color of it not

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the light of midday but something warmer heavier or most the color of honey. If you

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were standing in it right now you would feel it land on your skin differently to

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any time of the day. It's softer, lower, less demanding. Listen now in your

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imagination to the sounds that belong only to this kind of evening. Third settling

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rather than singing. A distant clink of ice in a glass. Someone's laughter

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carried on the air that's finally starting to cool. The particular hush that

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arrives when a long hot day finally breathes out. This is a glimmer not a big

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moment not something you have to chase or create just a small ordinary cue that

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tells your nervous system quite literally at a level of neuroception that you are

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safe right now. Stay here within it for a moment longer. There is nothing you need to

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do with the light except notice it. Breathe it in, hold it, this is your moment.

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Now let's bring in some affirmations visualizing them in your thoughts. We'll

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spring them softly allowing them to land. I let the light linger the way it

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lingers in the sky.

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There is no rush in this evening and there is none in me. Small moments of

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gold are still gold. I notice I do not chase. My nervous system no safety when it

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feels it. Allow the words now to drift a little deeper the way the light keeps

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softening as the evening goes on and then once more with real intention that each

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one settle into the part of you that's been waiting all day for permission to slow

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down. I let the light linger the way it lingers in the sky.

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There is no rush in this evening and there is none in me.

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Small moments of gold are still gold. I notice I do not chase. My nervous system no

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safety when it feels it and deeper and deeper now you allow yourself to drift in

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this natural trance like state harmony within every breath relax deeply and

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safely every out breath discarding the negativity the tension every in

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breath instilling within your thoughts your consciousness this ability to capture

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the glimmers whenever you need them wherever you are

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before we end before we close today's session take with you today's three

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galee caring tips one the golden hour pause sometime this evening step outside for

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two minutes during the golden hour and just notice the color of the light on

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something near you your skin the leaves the pavement not to photograph it not to

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capture it just to register it to the slow exhale switch if a beautiful evening

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makes you feel guilty for not doing something productive with it that's worth

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noticing try one long slow out breath instead it's permission to simply be in a

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moment rather than needing to use it for something and three name it once before

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you sleep tonight name one glimmer from today out loud or write it down even

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just a sentence naming a glimmer is what actually strengthens the neural pathway

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it really is the difference between a moment passing through you and a moment

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that stays now gently my friend bring your awareness back into the room

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around you wiggle your fingers and toes take one full breath in and as you breathe

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out stretch through your arms and your legs and when you're ready open your eyes

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feeling a little lighter a little bit more golden than when we started thank you

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have a lovely evening smile often and to the world around you be kind

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