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.

One of the big challenges about dealing with anxiety is that it can make us feel stressed out and

unfocused a lot of the time.

And that can make it hard for us to make good choices about what supports us,

what puts us in a better place, or in a better state of mind.

One thing that really helped me in coping with my own anxiety

was to learn different ways to feel more comfortable in situations that I couldn't really change, things that were beyond my control.

Not necessarily major life challenging situations, sometimes just daily things like traveling,

or being in crowds or noisy places, or being caught up in a situation where there are a lot of high energy

people around and I just really felt the need to be quiet or alone. And one of the most useful ways I found to deal with this is to find ways where I can adapt to a situation, ways where I feel more comfortable,

or ways that I can extract myself from situations and move away.

So here are a couple of neat tricks that have really helped me and I hope will be useful for you to.

To help you for calm and in control of yourself, even if you can't be in control of your external environment.

The first thing is to check in with your breathing.

Anytime that things around you feel that they're too anxiety-inducing or they're spiking your adrenaline.

Then just take a moment to stop.

Drop your shoulders, relax your jaw, and take a slow deep breath down, right into the pit of your stomach.

If you don't feel inhibited to do so, then rest your hands over your lower belly, just under your

navel. And then just take slow deep breaths and develop an awareness of your breath pushing your hands out as you breathe in and then allowing your hands to fall back in closer to your spine as you breathe out.

You can do that anywhere even if it's noisy around you, even if people are

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