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.

In this podcast I'm covering some useful techniques for dealing with negative emotions. Our emotions have an incredible power over us, perhaps more power than anything else in our lives, when we feel enthusiastic, motivated, energized and upbeat, we feel as if we can do absolutely anything.

But when we feel sad, anxious, dejected, or even depressed, then to do anything seems impossible.

One very helpful way of dealing with negative emotions,

is something I learned from the renowned

aerobatic teacher, Dr. Vissantlard, who teaches the power of

being able to witness our feelings above our emotional mind that gets caught up in our swirling thoughts and feelings,

is our intelligence. And when we can learn to watch our mind using our intelligence, then we're a step above it and a step back from it,

and we don't get so caught up in the intensity of negative thoughts and emotions.

Our emotions are just messengers. Our thoughts and feelings are bringing information

to us about what we're processing and what we're going through.

When we're caught up in those thoughts and feelings, it's almost as if we're diseased by them

or intoxicated by them.

We're under their influence so strongly

that we're caught up in the suffering and we don't hear their message.

So when negative emotions come our way if we can learn to just take a deep breath and step back and

imagine that we're watching ourselves experiencing that emotion as if we're watching a

movie in a cinema just to make that disassociation from the intensity of the experience.

Just take a deep breath, step back, and imagine you're watching yourself experience that emotion.

And in that place of detached observation, you can get information

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