COURSE

Living With Anxiety, Gently: A Week Of Inner Safety

This seven-day course is an invitation to soften, to rest, and to rediscover the quiet safety that already lives within you. Rather than fixing anxiety, we gently learn to sit beside it with kindness. Each day offers a short teaching and a guided meditation that encourages presence, self-compassion, and a deeper trust in your own inner ground. There is nothing to achieve here, only space to be with yourself as you are.

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Meet your Teacher

Mark Rowland

United Kingdom

Mark Rowland is a meditation guide and sound practitioner who creates gentle, grounding spaces for people living with anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional fatigue. His work is rooted in compassion, presence, and a deep respect for the human nervous system. Having walked his own path with anxiety and periods of emotional difficulty, Mark teaches from lived understanding rather than theory alone. He believes that calm is not something we force or achieve, but something we gradually remember when we feel safe enough to rest. Mark’s approach blends mindfulness, self-kindness, and quiet awareness, offering practices that meet people where they are. His sessions are known for their softness, inclusivity, and permission-based guidance, making them especially supportive for those who feel easily overwhelmed or pressured by more effort-driven practices. Through his courses and meditations on Insight Timer, Mark aims to create spaces where nothing is demanded, nothing is rushed, and each listener is gently reminded that they are already enough.

7 Days

18 students

5.0 stars

16 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Nothing Is Wrong With You

Day One gently sets the foundation for the week by addressing one of the most painful beliefs that often sits beneath anxiety: the idea that something is wrong with you. Today offers reassurance, safety, and permission to stop trying to fix yourself. Through a calm teaching and a settling meditation, you are invited to rest, soften, and begin relating to anxiety with kindness rather than resistance.

Lesson 2

Learning To Sit With What Is Here

Day Two explores a different relationship with anxiety, one that does not try to push it away or make it disappear. Through gentle teaching and a spacious meditation, you are invited to discover what happens when you stop resisting your experience and begin meeting it with quiet presence and care.

Lesson 3

You Are Not Your Thoughts

Day Three gently explores the role of thinking in anxiety. Rather than trying to stop thoughts, today invites a softer relationship with them. Through simple teaching and a spacious meditation, you are guided to notice thoughts without becoming lost inside them, discovering a sense of calm that does not depend on the mind becoming quiet.

Lesson 4

Resting As Awareness

Day Four invites you into a quieter way of resting with yourself. Rather than focusing on anxiety or thoughts, today gently points toward the steady awareness that is already present. Through a light teaching and a spacious meditation, you are encouraged to rest in being, allowing calm to emerge naturally without effort.

Lesson 5

Meeting Yourself With Kindness

Day Five gently turns toward kindness. Anxiety often carries an undercurrent of self-judgement or inner pressure, even when we are not aware of it. Today offers a soft invitation to meet yourself with care, patience, and understanding, allowing kindness to become part of how you relate to yourself throughout the day.

Lesson 6

Trusting The Quiet Beneath The Movement

Day Six invites you to sense the quiet steadiness that remains present, even when emotions or anxiety move through you. Rather than focusing on what is unsettled, today gently encourages trust in the deeper calm that does not come and go. Through simple reflection and a grounding meditation, you are guided to rest with greater confidence in yourself.

Lesson 7

Living From Presence

Day Seven gently weaves together everything explored throughout the week. Rather than closing a journey, today invites a sense of continuation. Through reflection and a flowing meditation, you are encouraged to carry presence, kindness, and steadiness into everyday moments, allowing calm to support you naturally as life unfolds.

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