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 van der Leek, here with my friend and anxiety Slayer's sister,

Ananga Severe. We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety Slayer

sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page and together we share a powerful

collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

Welcome, Monanga, it's so good to be together with you again this week.

Today, we're going to talk about whether a weighted blanket can calm your anxiety.

What do you think about that, Ananga?

Is that something that you've used?

What do you know about weighted blankets?

Well, I didn't know a lot about them at all.

I didn't realize there was such a thing as these blankets where you actually

had pellets sewn in them in little squares to keep them heavy. So I just saw an article come up on

life hacks saying sleeping with a weighted blanket helps insomnia and

anxiety according to a study so I looked it up and had a read and what really interested

me was the comments because according to Iravada which we often discuss India's

ancient system of living along and peaceful life there are types, different body types that have different needs and

requirements. So when it comes to anxiety in Iraveda this often affects the type that we call Vata which is a very ethereal type

each type according to our Vader are made up of two elements so Vata is made of

air and ether. So yes, anything weighted, heavy, soft, warm, anything that feels safe and

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