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.

How to start taming your anxiety?

One of the problems with tackling anxiety is that it feels so

urgent and awful that it can be confusing to know where to begin. Even if you do have

an idea of where you'd like to start, it can seem that simple techniques like breathing exercises are not enough to tackle something that feels like an emergency.

This podcast is about developing confidence in a skill that can help you tame anxiety and knowing how and when to apply it.

Our topic is, is, taming the dragon before it starts breathing fire.

The key to success in taming our anxiety dragon is to start work on it before it starts breathing fire.

What does that mean? It means practicing an effective technique like the quick anxiety stopper or a breathing technique before you feel bad.

Try getting up 10 minutes early in the morning and practicing the long exhale.

You'll find details on our website or belly breathing which Shan explained in

last week's podcast. Then as you get more familiar with the calming power of your

breath you can practice a few times throughout the day. Try your breathing practice at red traffic lights, while the

kettle's boiling, while waiting in a queue, in the shower or at school pickup time. Commit

to making yourself a master of your breath or a master of using acupressure

points to calm your anxiety and feel how it helps you calm down.

Your commitment to practicing self-help anxiety techniques will help you experience two important benefits.

The first is that you will experience anxiety less intensely, because you're actively working with

calming your nervous system. And the second is that if the anxiety dragon does

start puffing smoke you can deal with him quickly because you already know what to do.

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