Best for: anxious thoughts and rumination
This session uses the image of a background radio — always murmuring, rarely true — to help you loosen anxiety's grip on your attention. You'll practise noticing the mind's commentary as sound rather than fact, creating a small but vital gap between thought and belief. Drawing on cognitive defusion from ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), it offers a gentler relationship with the anxious voice. Suitable for anyone caught in spirals of worry, rumination, or self-criticism.
A Mind You Don't Have to Believe is a guided audio session from Salūs Rooms — part of the 21-day anxiety collection.
Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.