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So today we're going to be talking about how to deal with anxiety in these uncertain times

that we're in and I'm actually going to give you five keys that I came up with, five

strategies of how to get past your anxiety and what I want to say first before we dive

into it is this is anxiety so you know is actually not depression.

anxiety is considered a chemical imbalance inside of your brain.

Anxiety comes from your thoughts.

Most of the time anxiety actually comes from your thoughts about the future whether

that's worrying about something that's you know possibly going to happen or could possibly

happen or might happen and or you know the anxiety of not being in control of current

circumstances that are happening in the world so you're you feel like you don't have

any control which is giving you anxiety but anxiety comes from your thoughts and so

I'm going to give you the five strategies of how to overcome that and the first one

the most popular one the one that really makes the most sense for a lot of people is actually

an acronym and the acronym is HALT and that stands for Hungry Angry Lonely Tired.

And so if you feel like you're very anxious today it's really important to ask yourself

these questions number one am I hungry right now number two am I lonely number two am I

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