Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Absolute Mind podcast, Becoming Mentally Healthy.

Now before I go into the podcast details, I quickly want to remind you all about the Facebook

group, which is all about becoming mentally healthy, gaining control over your emotions,

over anxieties, over the way that you feel, and gaining some clarity and focus within mental

health. So if you are interested, please do head on over to Facebook. It's the absolute mind

group becoming mentally healthy. We're almost at 1,000 followers, 1,000 members, and I would really love to see those numbers

rise even more and get the masses of people understanding ways in which they can control their

anxiety levels, understand their mental health, their emotions.

So please head on over, join the group and then let friends

and family know all about that group. Now, on to today's podcast, which of course I am going to be

talking about our current situation across the globe. You know, we are, we're facing an massive increase in

worries, concerns, anxieties all around the uncertainty of coronavirus, COVID-19.

And it's okay right now if you feel scared. It's absolutely fine. And I want to

make you a word that it is okay to feel the way that you do. My intention here for the podcast

and for in the group and for on my Facebook lives is to try and

work through this period of time with everybody to try and reduce your anxiety levels.

As I said, uncertainty levels of not knowing what's to come or not knowing why this is happening or where

it's all stemmed from or the outcome, it creates a level of anxiety, a fear.

You know, we as human beings, we fear the unknown.

It's a normal response that we begin to prepare for danger,

prepare for the worst. You know, our bodies, our brain is bound to go into the fight or flight

response. And that is where we're seeing this heightened level of anxiety is beginning to increase.

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