Let's talk managing your anxiety.

Hey Spartans, it's Dr. We're here at Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast

family. Today I'm talking about some ways to manage your anxiety. So anxiety is really

a habitual and pervasive sense of worry,

and it can come over you physically

and also occupy a lot of mental energy and mental space.

So there are some simple ways to bring your anxiety

down just a little bit.

But this is a big topic, so we're only

going to go over a few.

The first is breathing.

So if you notice yourself beginning to get anxious,

really slowing down your breath.

Taking some deep inhales, some deep exhales.

Mark Devines, Four Square Breathing is an excellent tactic to use.

It's inhale for four seconds, pause for four, exhale for four, pause for four, and do that in a square basically, right?

So that tactic is just going to reduce your anxiety a little bit and maybe move you more into position of feeling more relaxed.

The second way is grounding your body, okay?

And what I mean by that is really just keeping still for a minute and moving your feet into the floor like pressing into the floor.

If you're standing, imagine that basically like your

roots and roots and you're gonna move them into the floor and feel really solid and stable. If you're sitting on a chair or on a couch and your feet aren't flat on the four,

put them flat on the floor.

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