- Perform a "Mental Sweep": Visualize your mind as a room that needs a gentle sweeping. We will clear out the "dust" of 2025—the old news, the awkward moments, the regrets.
- Release Emotional Clutter: Identify the heavy boxes of stress you are still carrying and leave them at the back door of the year.
- Prepare the Canvas: Visualize the New Year not as a challenge, but as a soft, pristine white sheet—waiting for you, clean and unmarked.
- Drift Deep: Use progressive relaxation to shut down the body and guide you into a restorative, heavy sleep.
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Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.
Episode Transcript
"Welcome in, this is calming anxiety, our fifth day after Christmas, quieting the night,
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a deep sleep hypnosis to sweep away twenty-twenty-five.
So it's December 30th, the eve of the eve.
Tonight is dedicated to one thing only, rest.
There is often a pressure at this time of the year to be ready, ready to celebrate, ready
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to change, ready for a fresh start.
But you cannot start fresh if you are exhausted.
So tonight, I invite you to get into bed, pull the covers up to your chin, let the mattress
hold your full weight.
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And off the lights, close your eyes.
We are going to do a deep clean, not to the house but of your mind.
We are going to sweep away the dust of twenty-twenty-five so that you can sleep deeply and wake
up with a blank canvas.
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Take a long, slow inhale and an even longer, slower exhale.
Tell your body it is safe to let go now.
I want you to visualize your mind as a beautiful, spacious room.
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It is a room you love, but right now, it is a little cluttered.
There is dust on the floor.
The dust is the residue of the last year.
It is the old news headlines.
It is the arguments you've replayed in your head.
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It is the worries that never came true.
It is the shithabs and the kud haves.
It is just dust.
And tonight, we are going to sweep it all out.
Imagine you have a soft, large broom.
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Start in the far corner of your mind.
Gently, rhythmically start sweeping.
Sweep the dust towards the open back door.
In watching the grey clouds of old thoughts moving across the floor.
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You don't need to examine them.
You don't need to analyse the dust.
You just need to remove it.
Sweep away the stress of January.
The rush of summer.
The chaos of December.
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Flip it all towards the door.
And sometimes, small pockets of dust reappear.
This is normal.
Just go back and gently, rhythmically sweep them all away.
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And as you do, allow your thoughts to settle.
You are breathing to find its own hypnotic balance.
Push that pile of grey dust out of the back wall and into the night air.
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Watch as the wind catches it and scatters it into nothingness.
It is gone.
It is not part of you anymore.
Turn back in towards the room.
Now look at the floor.
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It is clean.
It is polished.
The room feels bigger.
The air feels lighter.
In the centre of this room, I want you to imagine a large white canvas.
It is covered by a soft white sheet.
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This is 2026.
It is pristine.
There are no marks on it yet.
There are no mistakes on it yet.
It is waiting for you.
But not tonight.
Tonight we just admire the clean space.
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Tonight.
We enjoy the quiet.
Your mind is clean.
Your body is heavy.
It is time to drift.
I want you now to simply imagine the most relaxing bed you could ever think of.
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Perfect, just for you, however you imagine it.
And it stands there waiting at the bottom of a spiral staircase.
Ten gentle steps lead down towards this perfect bed.
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Every step down, you allow yourself to feel more tired, more ready for sleep.
Every moment, every word I say, you truly allow yourself to unwind and drift deeply.
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So imagine looking down at your feet now and take that first step and drift deeper and
deeper.
And now the second step, your muscles unwinding, your arms and legs feeling heavier and heavier.
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And then the third step and now the fourth, further and further into blissful harmony, you
allow yourself to drift deeper and deeper towards sleep.
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You take the fifth step, you relax, you take the sixth step and now the seventh, your whole
body at peace, drifting deeply, your thoughts safe and balanced.
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And now the eighth step, deeper and deeper still.
And now the ninth, so relaxed and at peace.
And now the tenth step, walking up towards this bed, knowing that as soon as you touch
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the sheets, you'll feel even more relaxed.
Imagine moving the bed sheet aside, sitting down, sliding your legs onto the mattress, pulling
the sheets up around you, feeling warm and cozy, safe and protected.
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Your head touches the pillow, your eyes close, you relax and unwind for a full deep night
sleep to wake rested and ready in the morning.
Your mind is clean, your body is heavy, it is time to sleep.
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Your legs as if made of lead, your hands are soft and open, the space between your eyebrows
is smooth.
You drift down towards this blank canvas, deeper and deeper, you're breathing, slows,
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calming you, deeper and deeper, sleep.
Good night my friend, rest well and in your dreams be kind.
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