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For when anxiety about a future event prevents sleep. Grounds you in the present moment, reframes the feared situation into manageable chunks, and soothes nervous system activation through breath and body awareness.

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What this meditation helps with

For when anxiety about a future event prevents sleep. Grounds you in the present moment, reframes the feared situation into manageable chunks, and soothes nervous system activation through breath and body awareness.

Why this works

A meta-analysis of 47 trials (3,515 participants) found mindfulness meditation reduced anxiety with a clinically significant effect size of 0.38. Goyal et al., 2014, JAMA Internal Medicine

Each session follows the ISO Principle — meeting you where you are emotionally before guiding toward calm (de Witte et al., 2020), with narration that progressively slows in pitch and pace to reduce muscle tension (Bernstein & Borkovec, 2006).