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. as I often do first thing in the morning. I came across a wonderful quote from

Marianne Williamson, not so much a quote I guess as a post that she added to her

stream and this is what she said.

Five minutes meditating in the morning literally blesses your entire day.

It expands time, calms your nervous system, and restores your cells.

It makes forgiveness easier because it opens the heart.

It interrupts the ego's proclivity for attack and defense retrains your attitudinal musculature and delivers you to inner peace.

Plus it's free." And then she went on to say, so why don't she get to it? And I thought this was just a lovely

post and I shared it and one of my friends online said that she was having a really a difficult time

Relaxing her mind and wondered if it just takes practice and my was, yes, it's a lifetime of practice, one moment at a time.

So really one of the things that I'd like to talk about is the importance of relaxation, whether you want to call

it meditation or not.

As long as you are making time, creating space, to breathe, to be still, to honor yourself, to understand

when you're starting to wind out, and to know that coming back to your breath means everything.

And for me I can tell you that my natural state is very pitibrained, very much going on in my mind and lots of creativity and lots of

things to do and sometimes I find myself entirely impatient.

Patience is something that for me, I strive for because it's one of the most difficult obstacles that I face.

So to be peaceful and to learn patience is key to helping me relax, to helping me be in a place where I'm no longer

judging, I'm just observing, To know that being mindful of where I'm at and how I feel and how I behave

is so important to be the witness of what happens when I start to get a little bit fired up and

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