Welcome to Destiny. Now he's your host, Cliff Dunning.

Oh boy, here we are back in the driver's seat and ready for another episode of Destiny.

And this one is kind of dear to my heart.

It has to do with anxiety.

And as a young person growing up in high school I had a lot of anxiety

I was just nervous had an upset stomach had a nervous stomach,

nervous stomach, and when I got into college, it didn't go away and I was on

all kinds of an acid and stomach issues and I even had anti-anxiety medicines for a couple, I want to say a year year and they didn't do anything for me made me feel numb and

I eventually grew out of it and I wasn't so anxious anymore.

My son inherited my anxiety and he was on Adderall for a couple of years and

then at the time my wife is like no he's got to get off of this he's just

numb and he's having other problems and that's the solution that we deal with today

when we have anxiety and a lot of us have anxiety

we're anxious be it at work be it at home relationships, just not knowing what to expect in life can cause anxiety,

new situations.

And it's, as we'll hear today, it's as we'll hear today it's part of a fight or flight reflex that is innate

in our physiology and we don't want to get rid of it completely we just want to be able

to understand it better we want to be able to control it and for me one of the

solutions is calming the mind at least once a day through a meditative practice.

For some people that can be actually meditating for 20 minutes or longer.

Some Zen practices are an hour or more. I can't do an hour. I just don't have the time.

And the other practices are yoga or Tai Chi or exercising and clearing the body of cortisol or the stress

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