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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Taking a Break

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Education

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2010

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Shann talks about how she's learned to respond to mental overload by taking time out for self-care and offers some refreshing words of advice on how we can all benefit from examining what's going on in our lives and recognising our need to take good care of ourselves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

0:14.7

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

0:27.0

Lately my mind has been filled with so much information. Lately, my mind has been filled with so much information.

0:33.8

It seems as if the voices in my head

0:36.8

are competing for their time on stage,

0:39.7

a very pit to brain that is moving so quickly that my body was having a hard time keeping up.

0:47.1

For about two and a half years I have been working on

0:55.0

with creating a book involving more than 41 entrepreneurs out in the world and along with telling a story that kind of sew all of these

1:01.2

interviews together and it's been a really exciting project, something

1:06.4

that frankly for me to focus on anything for two and a half years is pretty significant.

1:13.2

So being at the position where the book is finished

1:18.0

and where to final edits is something to behold.

1:21.4

And I'm happy about that but through the process this mental

1:25.6

clutter this the board of directors in my head competing for time really caused some interesting forms of anxiety for me.

1:37.4

One of which was the critic reminding me that I am a novice and who do I think I am writing a book, but then also the

1:50.1

cheerleader telling me that I can do anything, which cheerleader tends to live in my head more than the critic,

1:57.0

but also the expert telling me that I'd better make sure I do things just so and follow these steps and these rules and the

2:05.4

shoulds started coming up and I thought, oh Lord, should is my least favorite word in the

2:10.6

universe and the more the shoulds came the more I would shut down and what I mean by

2:16.8

shutting down is I would just completely ignore what my body was telling me in

2:22.2

order to work through this mental clutter and get the job done.

2:27.0

While witnessing this happening, I knew what I needed to do. I began to witness what was happening and normally I'm

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