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 Vanderleke here with my Slayer's sister Ananga Severe and 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 are celebrating 2.25 million

listens to our podcast, and we couldn't do it without you.

So thank you for listening.

We love sharing a powerful collection of

techniques to reduce anxiety and we mix things up by sharing coaching and

storytelling and I hear Veda, EFT tapping and so much more.

Nanga, it's so great to be with you today.

Hi, Chen.

We have an excellent listener question today and I'll just jump right in and read that.

I'm very interested in learning as much as possible about how breathing can help control and relieve stress and anxiety.

Please advise any resources that I can use to learn more information.

So that's right up our alley, eh Ananga? Yeah, I think for me breathing techniques have been one of the most calming things I've learned. So many

times I've used breathing exercises to really reduce severe anxiety also just on a daily basis just for maintenance to feel calm to feel relaxed to use it as a meditative practice for well-being I don't know where I'd be

without breathing practices. I agree it's something that so many take for

granted that you know the breath the inhalation the exhalation but as soon as you start working with your breath

No matter what technique your life will change and things will get better so quickly.

Yeah, it's beneficial for your overall health, stress and anxiety, respond very quickly, but the rest of us catches up too and of course when we learn to take ourselves

off that anxious fight and flight way of thinking and all those stress hormones coursing around in our body and we invoke the relaxation response by using our breath,

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