Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan

Banderleak here with my co-host and good friend Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly to share award-winning anxiety slayer sessions with you and often answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page, as well as our private Facebook group.

We love to share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety with you.

Today we're going to be covering five common causes of anxiety to be mindful of.

Hello, Ananga. Hey Shen.

I'm so glad we're together again today to talk about these five triggers.

They are really important to be mindful of and will hopefully help our listeners have a good understanding of what to be on the lookout for.

One of the challenges with anxiety is that we're so caught up in the experience and the physical symptoms that we aren't able to step back and look at possible cause and effect,

possible triggers and what we can do about them and that mysterious aspect of anxiety always makes

it feel worse. Of course once we can see a trigger and

consider oh maybe that's adding to my anxiety then we can look at what we can do

about it, look at taking steps to weed the triggers out and feel more calm and more in control again.

And the first of five is overstimulation.

And this is something that we hear so often is overwhelmed.

I'm overstimulated. there's too much going on and in Iurveda India's ancient science of life

We learn that overstimulation of the nervous system is the leading cause or the leading underlying cause of anxiety.

And look at our world right now. We have so much information coming at us all the time. Social media, news, movies, noise, change,

just being out in social environments with all of the noise and energy that's flying around.

And many of us live with constant noise and visual stimulation, even when we're in bed trying to sleep.

There may be the rumble of traffic or sounds of airplanes or other noises, and these things

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