Sylvia's Mind Calming Podcast

Send us Fan MailWelcome 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.So before I begin, let me explain what subliminal audio actually is.A subliminal recording carries a spoken message that sits below the level of conscious hearing. You might hear calming music, or gentle nature sounds, or simply quiet, and underneath that layer, there's a voice repeating positive, supportive suggestions. Your conscious mind might not pick up the exact words, but your subconscious mind is listening the whole time.This works because the subconscious is always absorbing information, even when the conscious mind is relaxed or distracted. By speaking directly to that deeper part of you, healthy patterns around food, appetite, and energy are reinforced.In this episode, the suggestions are focused on choosing foods that fuel your body well, that support clear thinking, steady energy, and physical strength. You don't need to do anything except get comfortable and let the recording play. You can have this on in the background while you rest, or simply while you sit quietly with your eyes closed.

Send us Fan MailEvery 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 and is ready, now, to be honoured and released.This short exercise guides you through the felt experience of closing a chapter. Not rushing past it. Not pretending it didn't happen. But honouring it fully, for everything it gave and everything it cost, until it is ready to close on its own.And then, very gently, turning towards what comes next.Not knowing what it holds. Not needing to. Simply stepping towards the unwritten page with peace.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailThink 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 music we never think about the silence. We simply experience the whole. What if our minds work exactly the same way?Our experience of life is made of thoughts. But also of the spaces between thoughts...In this short meditation, I invite you to slow down enough to notice what has always been there. The silence between the notes. The space between the thoughts. The stillness that exists underneath everything your mind has been doing.It takes a few minutes. And it changes the way you experience life.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's meditation has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailThis 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, infinite.The same world. Two completely different perspectives.This 5 minute exercise uses that same principle. You will zoom in to whatever is present for you right now, feel it fully, and then zoom out, progressively, from the room you are in, until the earth itself is no longer visible.And then you will come back. To yourself. Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailWe 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 upbringing, our experiences, our culture, and that we have been living by ever since without ever stopping to question them.Rules like: people should be considerate. Life should be fair. I should always be productive.What happens when the world fails to follow our rules?Every time a rule is broken, we suffer. We feel frustrated, anxious, angry, hurt, disappointed. Not because something terrible has happened, but because something has failed to match our rule book.In this 10 minute exercise, I guide you to play with your rule book...Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailOne 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 step back. To see the world from far away. To observe both the world and yourself from a distance so great that the busyness begins to look very different.From up there, things shift. The noise quietens. The urgency softens. And something becomes clear that is very hard to see from close up.This is an exercise in a perspective shift. And it takes six minutes.Use it whenever the world feels like too much. Whenever your mind is running faster than you would like. Whenever you need to remember that you are not your thoughts and the world is not as loud as it seems right now.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailWhen 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 counts out, to directly activate your vagus nerve and your parasympathetic nervous system, switching off your body's stress response and restoring a genuine sense of calm and groundedness in minutes.Combined with a powerful grounding visualisation, breathing in energy from the earth beneath you and releasing it through the crown of your head to the universe above, this exercise leaves you feeling rooted, present, calm and clear.Use it anywhere. At your desk, before a difficult meeting, on public transport, in a moment of panic or overwhelm. It works every time.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has resonated with you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailLetting 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. Resentment. Uncertainty. A story you have been telling yourself for too long. Something someone said. Something you cannot control. Something heavy that has been with you longer than you would like.You don't need to name it perfectly. You simply need to trust what arrives.This is a 5 minute exercise, not a meditation. It is practical, purposeful and complete. You will be guided to find what you are ready to release, gather it, and let it go with one single, slow, intentional breath.What follows is lightness. Spaciousness. The feeling in the body when something that has been held for a long time is finally, gently, put down.Use this exercise whenever you need it. As many times as you need it. For anything you are ready to release.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's exercise has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailThis 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 yourself today.In this deeply relaxing meditation, I guide you on a quiet journey through your own body from head to toe, finding wherever tension has gathered, wherever knots have formed, wherever the day has left its marks, and gently, warmly, completely releasing them.Using breath as a wave, warmth as a healer, and your own quiet attention as the most powerful tool you have, this meditation invites your body to untangle, soften and reset.This can be used at any time of day. At your desk. In your lunch break. Before a difficult conversation. After a hard day. Whenever your body needs ten minutes of genuine care and attention.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's meditation has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

Send us Fan MailThe 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 clearing.And above you, the Milky Way. 🌌That river of ancient light stretching from one horizon to the other. Millions of stars. Billions of years. The whole vast story of everything, visible from this one small clearing, on this one quiet mountain, on this one perfect night.You are lying on a cashmere blanket, warm by the fire, under the infinite sky.And at the moment sleep arrives, something extraordinary happens. A shooting star blazes across the Milky Way. And the fire breathes its last breath and goes dark. Both at exactly the same moment, as though the universe and the fire conspired together to give you one perfect, unrepeatable moment to let go. 💫This meditation is for anyone who needs the perspective of infinite space to finally release the weight of the day.Please let me know if you enjoyed this session: [email protected] if today's meditation has stirred something in you, a curiosity, a longing, a quiet sense that you are ready for more, I would love to support you further.Visit www.sylviaingle.co.uk to find out how we can work together.