Today on the Anxiety Slayer podcast, Ananga and I are sharing tips from Ayurveda, India's ancient science of life on how to calm your anxiety in the summer heat.

Welcome back to another episode, Ananga.

Hey, Shan.

It's so good to be with you.

Summer anxiety is different than the anxiety that we experience the other seasons of the year.

How so? The heat brings a different

influence on our body and on our mind. When we heat up, we can feel a certain type of anxiety

that's quite restless and often frustrated, frustrated, self-critical. That's what the heat brings.

It brings up that fire, that bitter energy.

And we have a tendency to do it to ourselves as well,

to turn in on ourselves and be frustrated.

Araveda teaches that we experience different types of anxiety

according to our mind and body type or dosha, our set up,

our mind-body set up. And I think it can be helpful to talk through those and explore them a bit.

And it can lead to some good insights and some humor as well.

Humor for sure as I think about my pit of self and how often I need to get my feet in the water

during the summer.

Yeah.

It helps so much.

But yeah, anxiety levels vary for each of us depending on our dosha.

And as we mentioned, can be influenced by the season.

So during the summer when it's super hot, Vata, Pita, and Khaa all act a little bit differently.

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