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.

In this week's podcast, I wanted to share the importance of being able to curl up and be still and quiet and feel safe when you're suffering from anxiety.

A few weeks ago I was working with somebody who was suffering from extreme anxiety issues and who really felt that they were in danger of losing their mind.

And they told me in a worried tone that they really just felt like curling

up in a ball in the corner of their room. And to many of us when we have that feeling, we really fear that we may be going crazy.

But India's ancient system of healing and living a healthy long life teaches that this is actually a very natural response

when we feel anxious. What happens in the body when you're suffering from strong anxiety is that the energies in the body that Iraveda describes as life airs become very scattered

Our limbs feel shaky and weak our stomach feels disturbed. We feel really ungrounded. Unsaint feel And when the body feels like that, it's actually very natural to bring your hands up over your head and curl yourself down.

If you think of the intensity of a panic attack happening within the body, it's an extremely

fearful state. And then if you think if somebody may be outside where a natural disaster

or an explosion might occur, the first thing we do is we want to curl up,

protect our head and put ourselves safe. So in a sense it's a natural startle response.

It's a way of curling yourself up and protecting yourself

because when we're experiencing an anxiety attack the nervous system is in such a state of

strong distress that's how a body response.

My recommendation is that we curl up as a remedial measure,

as an act of self-care and self-preservation.

Make yourself a nest.

Find somewhere safe and quiet, get some blankets, cushion, pillow.

The key things to factor in are soft, warm and safe. Put some music on if you need to.

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