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Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast.

I'm Shan Banderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host in Nangasivir. We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw to share

anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page,

as well as our private Facebook group.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

Hello Ananga, I'm Shen. Today we're going to be talking about how our thoughts and feelings about anxiety

affect the quality of our life. We'll be looking at the benefits of clearing

resistance and resentment towards anxiety and how that

frees up our energy to start taking action steps toward feeling less anxious

and more hopeful.

Here we are in the new year and I think this is a great place to start because it's so natural to go to that place of resenting anxiety and how it makes us feel.

Yeah, it's something I learned from chronic illness, the difference, how I felt about myself in that experience from day to day

if I could be at peace and accepting and do the best I could with it and have the sweetest day I could

with it, or whether I just felt sick and tired or feeling sick and tired.

Not wanting to wake up in pain and when we're pushing against and objecting to what's happening it just doubles our suffering.

It's that second arrow teaching that we've sometimes shared from Buddhist psychology.

So our anxiety, that's the experience, that's the first arrow about how we respond to it how we

feel about it that's the second arrow the thoughts and feelings we're having about

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