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 Vanderleke here with my friend and partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

And together we are armed with a powerful collection of

techniques and albums and offerings guided meditations along with a potent blend of

coaching and storytelling.

And today we're going to be discussing how your imagination affects your anxiety

and how you can harness the power of your imagination to actually heal your anxiety versus letting that

imagination run wild and making your anxiety even worse. Welcome Ananga,

my Shen. So good to be with you again today talking about this powerful subject.

Yeah, our imagination is one of those things like intelligence where it's really neutral.

You can use your intelligence to do great things or you can use your

intelligence to do great harm. And it's the same with our imagination, except it tends to be more

of an inside job.

And I noticed when I was suffering when I was younger

with really strong anxiety, just how brilliant my imagination

is at conjuring up horrors from something on the news or a sentence somebody might

say in passing my head could just create an absolute nightmare you know full on

technical sound effects, right? All the visuals, the works, and

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