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 van der Leek here with my friend and Slayer's sister, Ananga Severe.

And we come together weekly on Skype to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you

and often answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together, Ananga and I are armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

We like to mix up a potent blend of coaching, storytelling, iurveda, yoga, guided

relaxations, and EFT tapping along with our many, many years of personal experience.

And today we're addressing how you can break free from negative thoughts.

Welcome, Ananga, my Shen, so let's talk about negative thoughts and how they can increase anxiety.

Yeah, I think negative thinking is a really sneaky culprit behind the scenes of anxiety because negative thoughts are a big block on our hope about recovery

and they really squash our sense of possibility about things to try and things we might be able to do to help ourselves feel better or even just the notion that we can be better.

So negative thoughts can make any positive change seem almost pointless.

Sometimes you can't see the value in small steps or you feel too

overwhelmed to take big steps and so you get a sense of feeling really stuck.

Mmm I know exactly what that feels like. Well I think that it would be helpful to share some examples of the negative thoughts that come up.

Yeah, I think the most common one or the one we spot the most readily are the what-if thoughts.

Things like, what if I'm never free of anxiety?

What if I never get better?

What if I'm going crazy? What if my friends think I'm being dramatic, these kind of

thoughts where we start questioning things.

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