To help us arrive,
Let's take three deep breaths together,
In and out.
Breathe in,
Gently release.
And one last breath,
Breathe in and out.
If you're here,
There's probably a part of you that's been running,
Planning,
Trying to figure everything out before it happens.
And that forward-reaching energy,
It's so exhausting.
Here's what you need to know right now,
Anxiety isn't happening to you.
It's old programming,
Old code that learned to scan for danger,
To prepare for the worst,
To never fully land in this moment.
And here's the beautiful part,
You don't have to fight it,
Or fix it.
You just have to stop feeding it.
For the next few minutes,
You don't have to solve anything.
You don't have to figure anything out.
You're just going to practice being exactly where you are.
Right now,
Just notice if anxiety is present.
You don't have to do anything about it,
Just see it clearly.
Maybe it shows up as a tightness in your chest,
Or tension in your shoulders,
Or thoughts spinning about tomorrow,
Or next week.
Just notice.
Oh,
There it is,
There's that anxious energy.
You are not the anxiety,
You're the one noticing it.
And that's an important distinction to make.
Now,
Notice if your mind is trying to jump forward,
Trying to plan or prepare or figure something out.
That's the code running,
That's the old program trying to keep you safe by never landing here.
Just see it,
Name it quietly.
There's the forward reaching,
There's the planning mind.
You don't have to stop it,
Just notice it's happening.
Now,
Here's where everything shifts.
Instead of following that anxious energy,
Instead of letting it pull you into the story about what might happen,
You're just going to gently bring yourself back to right now.
Feel the weight of your body,
Actually feel it.
Notice where your body makes contact with what's beneath you.
Feel the temperature of the air on your skin.
Listen to the sounds around you,
Near and far,
Without naming them.
Just let sound wash over you.
This is all that's real right now.
Not the story about tomorrow,
Not the worry about what might happen.
Just this,
This breath,
This body,
This moment.
And if the anxiety rises again,
Simply let it.
Don't push it away,
But just don't follow it.
Don't act from it.
Don't speak from it in your mind.
Let it pass through like a cloud moving across the sky.
You are the sky.
The anxiety is just the weather.
Keep coming back to your body,
Pay attention to the feeling of your breath,
Moving in and out.
Here's what's happening right now.
You're not feeding the old code.
And when you stop feeding it,
When you stop giving it your attention and energy,
It starts to dissolve.
Not through force,
Just through the absence of fuel.
Stay here.
Stay with the felt sense of your body,
The rhythm of your breath,
The simple fact of this moment.
Nothing is wrong right now.
Not in this exact moment.
You are safe.
You are here.
Now let's anchor into something new.
There's a vision of you that doesn't live in constant preparation for disaster.
A vision of you that's calm,
Present,
Trusting.
And that vision of you isn't far away.
It's right here,
Available in this moment.
So let's choose it.
Not someday.
Right now.
Feel what it's like to just be here.
With nothing to figure out.
With no emergency to solve.
Feel the softness of not forcing anything.
The ease of not controlling anything.
This is you.
This calm awareness.
This presence.
This is who you actually are when the old code isn't running.
Let this feeling settle into your body.
Breathe it in.
You are the chooser.
And right now,
You're choosing peace.
When you leave this space,
The anxious thoughts might show up again.
And that's okay.
When they do,
You'll know what to do.
Notice them.
Don't follow them.
And gently bring yourself back to right now.
That's the practice.
Not once.
But again and again.
Each time you choose presence over the forward-reaching mind,
You're clearing the old code.
You're selecting the timeline where anxiety doesn't run the show.
You don't have to be perfect at this.
You just have to keep choosing.
Take one more deep breath in with me.
And out.
And remember,
You can do this.
You can return here whenever you need to remember.
You are not your anxiety.
You are the awareness that holds it.
You are the chooser.
And you are choosing peace.
