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Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. Hey Ananga, how are you?

Today we're going to be speaking about how you can learn to celebrate every single step you take to feel better. Anxiety is such a big issue that we sometimes forget the power of the little things, the little things like our breath, meditation, and other different ways to relax. And yet small though they are,

the difference these little things make

in managing stress and anxiety is huge.

Yeah, we're gonna be talking about how little and often is more effective than big infrequent

attempts at controlling anxiety.

So the little steps really count and how important it is to celebrate them.

Let's dig into commitment and recommitment, especially this time of year when we think about all the folks who set their intentions or

their resolutions for the new year and make a commitment to themselves and then as human nature shows us over a period of time the

commitment the intention and the resolution sort of fall by the wayside.

Yeah.

And so this is where commitment actually really means recommitment or recommitting to that action over and over and over again.

Yeah, this was something that I learned from a monk that I like to listen to,

who gives excellent talks on the Bhagwigita and he made this point that commitment

means recommitment he was talking about spiritual development and how we often resolve and we make you know statements that we're going to do this and then we do it in good

spirit and good nature and at the time we feel like yeah that's what I'm going to do but then something

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