Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my Slayer sister,anga Severe celebrating six years bringing

you the Anxiety Slayer podcast. We are in celebration mode through the end of

this year. Well we're in celebration mode all the time. We're so happy to be in

partnership and to come together weekly and share Slayer sessions with you, answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page and continue to discuss a powerful

collection of techniques to help you reduce anxiety.

And today we're going to be discussing five quick and easy ways to calm down when you feel anxious.

Welcome, Ananga.

Hi Shen, it's so good to be with you today and celebrating our six years together. Really enjoyed our

partnership and think that today's podcast is going to be very powerful to be able to have five quick and easy ways to calm down when you feel anxious.

It is a pretty powerful resource.

Yeah, when you know what to do to calm anxiety down,

then the anxiety quickly gets the message that you're

regaining some control and it doesn't bite at you so hard. And the first one is

breathing and the long exhale which we've talked about many times, but it's such a easy, supportive way to bring yourself back to center.

Yeah, when we're anxious our breathing tension. to bring yourself back to center.

Yeah, when we're anxious, our breathing tends to become shallow and rapid and then we enter into this anxiety spiral where things just get worse from there on down. So if we can just quickly get a hold of our breath and use our breath to calm ourselves down.

What happens when you use the long exhale is when you blow out a long smooth breath you're telling your mind and your

nervous system I've got this I'm regaining control.

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