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.

One useful tip for coping with anxiety is to practice writing it out, rather than trying to resist or fight it.

Fighting anxiety takes a lot of energy and only increases our stress.

So in this week's podcast we're talking about the practice of going with the flow and how it can

save your energy and help protect you from feeding into your anxiety and increasing it.

When our thoughts are stirred up by anxiety or unwelcome negative emotions,

they crash in and out of our minds like the waves on the ocean.

Big waves might be challenging or even frightening to an

inexperienced swimmer, but they're no problem to someone who knows how to float on

top of them. The point of this metaphor is that we can all learn to float.

Instead of letting the waves of anxious thinking knock you off your feet and

swamp you, you can practice floating with them

and letting them wash in and out of your mind,

without you having to tense up or resist them.

The trick is to understand that anxiety also comes in waves.

It comes and it goes.

It rolls in and it rolls out the waves of anxiety don't stay forever

they will eventually roll back and leave you with some breathing space

we all know it's not possible to hold back the waves in the ocean.

But what many of us don't realize is it's also impossible to hold back the waves in our minds. Trying to hold back anxious

thoughts is exhausting. Trying to run away from them and push them away from our minds is

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