Quiet the Alarm: A Reset for When It’s Weirdly Calm

Sometimes calm feels sketchy. Too quiet, too still, too suspicious. This visualization helps you retrain your brain to stop waiting for the crash.

TL;DR:
Use this short practice when silence feels unsafe. It helps remind your nervous system that calm isn’t a setup, it’s allowed.

Visualization:
Look around the room you’re in. Notice the stillness. The hum of the fridge. The faint tick of the clock. Maybe the dog breathing in the corner, or nothing at all.

Picture an alarm system panel in your head — the kind with little blinking lights. Right now, they’re all red. Danger, danger, danger. One by one, flip them off. See them turn green. Hear the soft click as each shuts down. Feel the weight in your shoulders drop just a little with each switch.

Take a slow breath in, let it out longer than you took it in. The air feels cool in your nose, warmer as it leaves. You’re still here. Nothing bad happened while it was quiet.

Say it in your head: It’s quiet because I’m safe.

I used to hate quiet. Silence meant something was coming. A slammed door. A fight. Some storm I had no control over. Maybe even one just inside my head. This exercise helped me stop treating calm like a warning sign. Now, quiet is proof nothing’s wrong.

You deserve a treat.