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. Vanderbilt here with my partner Ananga, Severe.

And together, we're armed with a collection of powerful techniques

for reducing stress and anxiety.

We come together weekly to share Slayer sessions and often answer listener questions from our

Facebook page or from our inbox.

We like to mix up a potent blend of coaching, yoga, Ayurveda, NFP, and EFT tapping, along with the years of experience

that we both have and a real passion for what we do. We are so glad you're here.

Welcome, Ananga, it's so good to spend some We are so glad you're here.

Welcome, Ananga. It's so good to spend some more time with you and answer a question from our website. This is a question we hear quite a bit and would love for your thoughts on it.

When you feel an anxiety attack coming on, how can you still your mind long enough for techniques to help?

Sometimes it feels like you're making one step forward and one step backward.

Like your mind is counteracting what you're trying to do to get calm.

Great question.

Really great question.

And I think a very common experience when you're trying to rein in an anxiety attack

when you can feel those awful feelings building up within you and you're trying to stop them.

And I think for me the most important thing I learned with

dealing with escalating anxiety is don't try and fight it and I think that's the cause of

that. Taking a step forward and step backwards scenarios that you try and stop the

anxiety and then it comes back at you and then for a second you feel like you're gaining control and

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