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Oh, loa, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's show I want to talk about five easy ways

to calm your anxious mind. One of the things that we run into on our daily

trek through life is a surprise of our anxious mind.

We're moving along we haven't had anything trip us up in a while and then all of a sudden

boom it's there.

And I often hear from people that they didn't know what to do then.

This just came out of quote the blue and they weren't prepared for it so I want to run through five

little ideas that you might be able to find one or two of these that you can

keep in your back pocket to use if you get side swiped by anxiety when you

weren't least expecting it.

This first tip actually comes from Rick Hansen, who was on the show quite a while ago, and in his book, the Buddha's brain, he talks about a bunch of different ways to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and

one of the easiest ways to do that that you can take with you in your daily life

is to touch your lip with you're

in your daily life is to touch your lip with two fingers.

And so, you know, when you're stressed,

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