Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt here with my good friend and

co-host Ananga Severe. We've been creating podcasts for our listeners now since

2009.

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Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Sean.

This week we'll be sharing some ways to care for yourself when you feel anxiety building.

If you can practice one or two of these tips every day,

you'll find that your anxiety begins to settle and anxiety attacks are less likely because you have a practice that can stop

anxiety in its tracks.

Something we shared some years ago that I think is worth mentioning again is very helpful is the example of anxiety being like a pot that's

simmering away on a stove and if the heat comes up more the pot starts to boil and boil over and that's like an anxiety attack.

So anything we can do to turn down the heat on anxiety, it serves us so well with general anxiety and reducing the

potential of it escalating into a really uncomfortable episode. So everything

we're sharing today is helpful for calming general anxiety

and reducing the risk of it peeking over into a really unpleasant experience.

In one of the easiest ways you can calm anxiety is to use your breath.

And gradually calm your mind by breathing deeply. Calm your outgoing breath

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