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.

Thanks for listening to anxiety Slayer. Unfortunately, we experienced some technical difficulties with this week's Skype

call, which is how we record our podcasts, and some considerable amount of noise has made its

way onto my side of the conversation in some places. I just wanted to

apologize for that, that the quality isn't as we hoped. However, I think the quality of

our conversation will be helpful to anyone who wants to know more about using breathing techniques for calming anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my good friend and partner, Anaga Sivir.

And 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 Anaga and I are armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

We like to mix up a potent blend of coaching,

storytelling, iervata, yoga, guided relaxations, and EFT tapping,

along with our many years of personal experience.

This week, we are going to address

a listener question, and it goes like this. I have tried breathing techniques off and

on now for over a year. Sad to say, I don't have the ability to slow my breathing down.

However, I know it must be possible because my breathing gets very shallow when I'm sleeping.

I am always a tense person. What can I do?

Hey Ananga, what do you think about that question?

Hi Shan, it can be really challenging when you're trying to work with your breath to calm anxiety and

it sounds like in this case possibly this person's been pushed by their mind and pushed by their

anxiety it's very difficult when the mind is pushing and the body's

conditioned to breathe rapidly, which is what it does when we're anxious. Sometimes it can feel very difficult to get a handle on that and know where to start.

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