Mira · Affirmations
Calm and peace affirmations
Calm affirmations are easy to write badly. “I am completely at peace” is hard to read when you aren’t, and a line you don’t believe is worse than none.
The 25 in Mira are built the other way round. Most name something you can do in the next minute, like putting your feet on the floor, breathing out for longer than you breathe in, or leaving a message unanswered, and the peaceful part follows from that. They are grouped by when you are likely to reach for them.
In the middle of the day
For the hours full of notifications. Several of them are permissions, “I don’t have to” and “I am allowed”, because busy days are mostly made of things that feel mandatory and aren’t.
Pairs with an uncluttered desk, a closed laptop, a long path under trees.
When it gets loud
These start with the body — feet, breath, counting — because that is the part you can still reach when your thoughts are running. “Four in and six out” is simply the instruction: a longer breath out than in.
Pairs with still water with a horizon, or anything where the eye can rest on a single line.
At night
Written for the Lock Screen late at night. They don’t tell you to relax; they give the worry somewhere to wait until morning, which is far easier to believe at 1 a.m.
Pairs with low light, a dim room, dusk rather than daylight — a bright photo is hard to look at in the dark.
Calm as a way of living
The broader lines, for the days that are fine. They are here so that calm is something you keep practising, not only something you reach for once it has gone.
Pairs with morning light, linen, an empty beach — the look of a slow day.
Put one on your Lock Screen
Your Lock Screen is what you see at night without unlocking anything, so a line from the night group belongs there. When you add Mira to the Lock Screen, choose the shape that shows a line of text.
on your iPhone
Mira is not a treatment for anxiety or for sleep problems. If worry or sleeplessness is getting in the way of your life, talk to a doctor.