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Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer.

Welcome, Ananga.

A-Shin.

This week we're gonna be talking about two key elements to self-care that can help us when we're struggling with anxiety or with our health.

It's good to be with you having this conversation because we've had so many reach out to us recently about

Amped up anxiety about concern for their health with everything that's happening around the world with COVID-19.

It's this is still a conversation we're having.

This is still something that we're in and I think these, this perfect self-care blend that we're going to share today will be quite useful.

Yeah, I hope so. What we're sharing today is something that helped me when I was living with long-term chronic illness and pain.

And that's that we have to make a conscious effort to keep our spirits up.

We need to practice focusing on the area where we can have influence, the area where we do have choice when everything's going crazy outside of us and around us and it comes in on us but we have to shore up inside and do what we can to help ourselves feel positive and remain in gratitude,

hopeful, and it's not easy, it's work, but it's good work.

And though I learned that from chronic illness,

it also helps with anxiety too. When the mind's hijacked by anxious thoughts, it becomes exhausted.

And when it becomes exhausted, it needs support, it needs help to steady out so that we can direct our mind and use it well again and experience more peace again.

I've found that it's incredibly helpful to have a practice, I know that you have a JAPA practice and I also have a practice where I may or may not be using Malabedes, but I will have something that I repeat,

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