When the Phone Rings

15 min

Best for: phone anxiety and anticipatory dread

This session meets the specific anxiety of a ringing phone, the tightening before you've even reached for it. Through gentle body awareness and breath, you'll practise noticing the shape your nervous system takes in that loud second between ring and decision. Rather than trying to make the response disappear, you'll learn to be with it: the lit screen, the appearing name, the ribcage's answer. A practice in meeting anticipatory anxiety where it actually lives, in the body, before thought.

← Back anxiety
Maya Hart
Your storyteller
Maya Hart
Tender, reassuring, steady

Tender and reassuring, steady when things aren't, present and calm without ever overpromising.

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About this session

When the Phone Rings is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the anxiety collection, narrated by Maya Hart.

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.