First Ten Minutes

12 min

Best for: arriving into focused work

This calm-focus session is a guided rehearsal for the first ten minutes of any focused work, the threshold most of us trample before we register it. You'll practise arriving deliberately rather than barging in with attention still trailing in the corridor behind you. Through paced breathwork and gentle attentional cues, you'll learn to enter a task with the same care you'd use stepping into a quiet room. A short, practical reset for anyone who wants their work to begin where they actually are.

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Eleanor Vance
Your storyteller
Eleanor Vance
Warm, low, unhurried

Warm and unhurried, with a low steady ease, the slow exhale at the end of a long day.

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About this session

First Ten Minutes is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the calm focus collection, narrated by Eleanor Vance.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.