Good morning, everybody. Aaron Holt here, Functional Medicine Nutritionist from Aaron Holt Health.

I'm doing something that I've never done before. I'm releasing an episode of the Functional Nutrition

podcast without any intro music, without any outro music.

This is going to be a guided meditation.

I'm going to walk you through a meditation on today's episode.

I have been posting a lot about coronavirus, COVID-19, everything that's going on in our country, talking a lot about ways to support the immune system.

And one of the ways that we can do that is by down-regulating our stress response.

These are uncertain times.

Unprecedented seems to be the word of the hour.

Nobody in this lifetime has experienced this before.

Uncertainty can create a lot of unrest, a lot of anxiety.

We don't know what to expect. We don't know what the future holds. A lot of my audience has some form of chronic illness or chronic condition. That can be

scary. How is this going to affect us? What does this mean? I know a lot of you are small business

owners. We're worried about finances. Can we keep our businesses open? And there's a lot of

questions. And what I hope to do today is to give you a resource to come back to during

these uncertain times to calm down your own system, to relax yourself, and to understand that you are safe and have a modality for healing.

Many of you know I am no stranger to anxiety.

I'm no stranger to panic and I'm certainly no stranger to chronic illness.

This is a tool that I have used throughout and it works.

Some of you guys might be home, away from your jobs.

Some people are really slowing down completely different schedules.

And I do suggest that you carve out time each and every day to do some form of mindfulness or meditation work.

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