What is up?

What is up, dudes and duets?

Drew here from the Anxious Truth.

Welcome to episode 89 of the podcast.

Today we're going, oh, by the way, it's New Year's Eve.

It is December 31st, 2019.

So if you are listening in the future, well, happy new year from the past.

Today we're going to talk about the topic of breathing and specifically we're going to talk

about anxiety that is focused and centered around breathing and your breath.

A few weeks ago I did a podcast episode

and it was, which episode was that?

It was episode 85 that I did,

that was focused on people who have heart-centered anxiety, anxiety and fear

around their heart and their heartbeat. And when I announced that I was going to do

it, then I asked people for some questions, I was amazed at the number of people

who actually chimed in at that point on Facebook and Instagram

and asked me to talk about this topic, the breathing thing.

So there's a tremendous number of you out there listening

who really get focused on the breath and for whom breathing becomes a source of serious fear and anxiety and

obsession and worry and fixation and we're going to spend not that much time because it's a relatively narrow and simple topic, but we're going to spend the next 15 or 20 minutes talking about that and hopefully I'll be able to give you some hints as to how you can sort of address this issue because I understand when you are continually fixated on your breath, which is something that is hard to avoid because you're just breathing every minute that you're alive,

things can get really dicey for you. I understand how disruptive this can be for your life. So let's talk about

breathing. So I'm really going to address sort of two things. There's two main categories of breathing

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