Sylvia's Mind Calming Podcast
Episodes
125 episodes
Subliminal Recording For Making The Best Food Choices for Peak Physical and Mental Performance
Welcome back to Sylvia's Mind Calming.Today's episode is a little different from the usual guided meditation. This one is a subliminal recording, designed to support the best food choices for peak physical and mental performance.S...
Closing This Chapter — A Short Exercise for Transition, Change and New Beginnings
Every life is made of chapters.Some end by choice. Some end without warning. Some we have been trying to close for years and haven't quite managed. A relationship. A job. A version of ourselves. A period of life that has run its course a...
The Space Between Thoughts — A Meditation on Stillness for Anxiety, Stress and Overthinking
Think about your favourite piece of music.It is made of notes. But it is also made of silence. The spaces between the notes are not empty. If you remove them and you no longer have music; you have noise.And yet when we listen to m...
ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT A 5 Minute Perspective Exercise for Anxiety, Stress and Overwhelm
This morning on a nature walk, something extraordinary happened.First, zooming in on a single bee. Its extraordinary detail, its colours, its wings, its complete absorption in what it was doing. And then looking up at the sky. Vast, open...
Who Wrote Your Rule Book? — A 10 Minute Exercise for Anxiety, Stress and Overthinking
We all have one.An invisible rule book. A set of rules we carry about how the world should work, how people should behave, how life should go, how we ourselves should be. Rules we never consciously chose, that were handed to us by our up...
"Is the World Busy or Is It My Mind?"— A 6 Minute Perspective Shift for Anxiety, Stress and Overthinking
One question. One shift. Six minutes.When the world feels overwhelming, busy and relentless, it is worth pausing to ask: is the world actually busy? Or is it my mind?In this short and quietly powerful exercise, I invite you to ste...
7 Minute Breathing Exercise for Calm and Grounding — Relief for Anxiety, Stress and Overwhelm
When anxiety, stress or overwhelm hit, your breathing is the fastest and most direct route back to calm.This is not a meditation. It is a practical 5 minute breathing exercise that uses a specific pattern, 6 counts in, 3 count pause, 9 c...
5 Minute Exercise of Letting Go — Relief for Anxiety, Stress and Depression
Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing we do.And yet somewhere inside you, you already know what needs to be released today. A feeling. A memory. A person. A worry. A fear. A thought that keeps returning. Anger. Guilt. Grief. Resentme...
Untangling — A Body Relaxation Meditation for Anxiety, Stress and Depression
This meditation is different from all the others.There is no landscape to visit. No place to go. No external world to step into.Just you. And your body. And eighteen minutes of the most gentle, intimate attention you will give you...
Falling Asleep Under the Milky Way by the Bonfire — A Deep Sleep Meditation for Anxiety, Stress and Depression
The seventh episode in the Falling Asleep By series.You are in a mountain clearing at night. The air is cool and clean and thin at altitude. A small bonfire crackles beside you, warm and intimate, casting its amber light across the clear...
Falling Asleep in the Forest — A Deep Sleep Meditation for Anxiety, Stress and Depression
The sixth episode in the Falling Asleep By series.It is night in an ancient forest. 🌲 🌲 🌲 Moonlight filters through the canopy above, falling in soft silver shafts onto the moss and the ferns and the forest floor. The air is cool and sti...
Falling Asleep Under the Cherry Blossom — A Deep Sleep Meditation for Anxiety, Stress and Depression
The fifth episode in the Falling Asleep By series. 🌸 🌸 🌸It is golden hour in an ancient cherry blossom orchard. Above you, a whole canopy of soft pink blossom, heavy and generous, petals falling constantly and gently like the warmest, so...
Falling Asleep on a Cloud — A Deep Sleep Calming Meditation for Anxiety, Stress and Overthinking
The fourth episode in the Falling Asleep By series.As the sun goes down and the sky turns soft pinks and purples, something extraordinary happens.A cloud descends. Slowly, gently, warmly. It finds you exactly where you are, wraps ...
Falling Asleep in the Meadow — A Deep Sleep Meditation for Anxiety, Stress, Depression and Overthinking
The third episode in the Falling Asleep By series. 🦋It is golden hour. The sun is low and warm and amber, turning everything it touches into something softer, something gentler, something that feels already halfway between waking and dre...
Falling Asleep in the Log Cabin by the Fire in the Snowy Mountains — A Deep Sleep Meditation
The second episode in the Falling Asleep By series.Outside, snow is falling on the mountains. The wind moves through the trees and presses against the windows. But you are inside.In a log cabin, lying on a thick wool r...
Falling Asleep by the Sea — A Deep Sleep Meditation for Anxiety, Stress, Depression and Overthinking
Introducing a new series — Falling Asleep By...Each episode in this series takes you to a different place, a place so warm, so safe, so beautifully still that your mind has somewhere wonderful to rest while sleep finds you.In this...
8 Minute Sleep Meditation for People Who Cannot Visualise
If guided meditations have never quite worked for you because your mind doesn't produce pictures, this recording was made for you.This sleep meditation contains no imagery, no visualisation, nothing to picture. Instead it works entirely ...
Meditation for People Who Cannot Visualise 11 Minute Sensory Meditation that can help with anxiety, stress and overwhelm
If you have ever been told to imagine a beautiful place and your mind simply went blank, this meditation was made for you.Many people find it difficult or impossible to visualise mentally. This is completely normal and does not mean medi...
Finding Joy — Increasing Dopamine as an Antidote to Stress, Depression and Anxiety - 7 minutes
Joy is a neurological state. Research shows it is driven primarily by dopamine, our brain's reward and pleasure neurotransmitter, and crucially, dopamine can be activated by imagination, by anticipation, by the vivid internal experi...
Body Scan for Anxiety — 12 Minute Meditation for Anxiety and Stress
Anxiety is a physical experience that is felt in the body, often without us even realising it. The clenched jaw. The tight throat. The heaviness in the chest. The knot in the stomach. The shoulders that have been raised.Research shows th...
The Blue Meditation - 5 Minute Calm Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Overthinking
In this 5 minute colour meditation, you will work with the energy of blue and indigo.You will begin with a small glowing sphere of blue and indigo light floating in front of you. With each breath it grows, deepens and expands, until you ...
The Green Meditation - 6 Minute Healing Meditation for Anxiety, Depression and Stress
In this 6 minute colour meditation, you will work with the energy of green You will begin with a small glowing sphere of green light floating in front of you. With each breath it grows, deepens and expands, until you can step inside...
The Pink and Purple Meditation - 6 Minute Love and Self Compassion Meditation for Anxiety, Depression and Stress
In this 6 minute colour meditation, you will work with the energy of pink and purple.You will begin with a small glowing sphere of pink and purple light floating in front of you. With each breath it grows, deepens and expands, until you ...
The Yellow and Orange Meditation - 6 Minute Energy Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Low Mood
In this 6 minute colour meditation, you will work with the energy of yellow and orange. You will begin with a small glowing sphere of yellow and orange light floating in front of you. With each breath it grows, deepens and expands, ...
The Gallery — Return to the Last Room - 6 min Deep Sleep Meditation for Stress, Anxiety and Overthinking
This episode is for those who have already listened to The Gallery several times. If you haven't, start there first.You already know the way. This 6 minute recording takes you straight back to the final room, the velvet chair, the cushio...