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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I want to talk about mindfulness meditationngthen your nervous system. We talk about

meditation here in many different ways and we also talk about Mindfulness here

and in many different ways and so I want to talk a little bit about the both of them

and then just mindfulness meditation specifically. We notice with anxiety that fear consistently, and that's the word here,

consistently, takes you out of the present moment. Now we all get flung out of the

present moment here and there, and some of us more than

others, and in different times in our life more than other times in our life. But when fear consistently takes you out of the present moment, you need to do something

about that. When we are not in the present moment, that's when we don't feel the comfort that we could possibly

feel because we are flung off into the future or back into the past.

Instead of focusing on the here and now,

we end up constantly being worried about what could happen or worrying about what has happened. Water

under the bridge. It's already gone, but we're still focused on it. Ringing our

hands. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. on it, ringing our hands,

woulda, coulda, shoulda, those kinds of words come up,

and we get hard on ourselves,

and we're totally not in the present moment.

Those things have already happened.

And the things with the future that we are considering

and doing our what-ifing about,

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