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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I want to talk about

anxiety, mindfulness, and your breath.

Your breath, my breath, all of us,

the way that we breathe influences

whether we are anxious,

whether we are calm and the mindfulness piece is very important here too.

So we're going to couple them together here today.

And I want to start the episode with a quote from a wise expert on

breathing Patrick McEwen he says thinking for practical purposes is fine as it serves a function.

However, most thinking is spent on insane, repetitive, worry, and anxiety.

If you could eliminate your repetitive thought activity by 50%, you would be very happy indeed.

If you could eliminate all the repetitive and useless thinking, you would live a life of bliss.

And again, that's from Patrick McEwen.

And he has written a couple of books on breathing and they are very informative and he is also coupling together

the mindfulness piece which is very near and dear to our hearts because we know that when we pay attention,

when we are fully in the present moment,

we have a lot less struggle with how we are feeling.

Anxiety and worry originating in our thinking

can cause us so many physical struggles.

Now, I know that you understand this because you're

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