The Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my

friend and co-host Ananga Severe. Last week we came together and talked

about how anxiety can hijack our minds and cause us to stress by focusing in on anything we're worried about and increasing our fear by running a narrative of everything that might be wrong.

And this week, we're looking at how this can happen with our anxiety over health.

And we'll be sharing some practices from Chigang and EFT tapping to help calm anxiety and send relaxed healing intentions

to all of your areas of concern. Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Shen.

So let's dive in.

Health anxiety is such a big issue with our listeners, with this co-host on occasion and anything that we can offer to help quell that is a good thing.

Yeah, the anxious mind will look for what's wrong in our body and it will find something inevitably and then it magnifies it, it zooms in, it becomes hyper-vigilant, and it keeps going back to check and worry,

check and worry, sometimes we find an egg or a pain

or something we don't think feels quite right.

And if we have a certain type of anxiety,

we tend to get a bit investigative we might poke it around a bit and then you've got some increased

discomfort there and then the mind makes this

spiraling loop of anxiety where it keeps going back to check over and over again

and it's a really difficult preoccupying kind of anxiety.

So we need to be very gentle and compassionate and there are ways of working with this where we can feel much more settled and in control.

Yes, and I've just been in this this week.

So what we're talking about really does work

and to be on the other side of it

and to be like, oh, thank goodness for the resources.

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