Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host of Nanga Severe.

And today we're going to be discussing three ways to relax the hold of anxiety.

Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Shen, let's begin by talking about the three ways that we relax the hold of anxiety and that we've found

over many, many moons to help us feel better in our bodies and our minds and take it from there.

The first thing we both share together when we're talking and in the

podcast I think is movement.

Yeah, when we don't move, we become more anxious because we have more time to be in our heads

instead of moving about the world, whether it be my to be mindful walking or

mindful walking or yoga or chigung or dancing or hiking,

whatever it is that we do to move our bodies is such a beautiful way to

care for ourselves body mind and spirit.

What I've learned from my own experience with anxiety is that it can have quite a paralyzing effect, especially

nighttime anxiety.

That can be particularly difficult to deal with but I've had days where I've just been

sitting in my chair and then anxiety will come and during

particularly challenging times in my life I feel like it's got me, you know, it just rears up and

catches me and what I've learned is to not stay sitting because it feels like a hostage situation to me when anxiety flares like that really gets hold of my mind and then I'm stuck with it and whatever it's going to throw up it kind of gains momentum when you're stuck with it. So one of my

favorite things to do is a very simple movement is to get up and walk. Sometimes I

shake my body, shake my arms and legs or bounce on my heels. That's a Chigong move for freeing stuff up,

just bouncing on your heels, shaking your arms, loosening your shoulders.

And I'll just start tapping, pacing up and down and tapping on the collarbone point in the EFT tapping sequence.

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