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H E L. P dot com forward slash Slayer. Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast I'm Shan Vanderle here with my wonderful friend and co-host

Ananga Civier. We come together weekly to share a powerful collection of supportive techniques

for anxiety relief.

In this week's podcast, we're going to be talking more

about working with unwanted thoughts

and sharing a practice to help you work with your mind

to cultivate more peace.

Hey Ananga, how you doing?

Hi Shan, I'm good, thank you.

So we're going to continue our conversation

about redirection and working with anxious thoughts.

And I think it's important for us to bring forward that sometimes thoughts just show up in our minds randomly.

And they might be useful or not.

They might be happy, sad, anxious, angry, fearful. You just never know, like seemingly come out of nowhere.

Yeah, but particularly when we're anxious because the anxious mind has an energy to it

and it pushes and the thoughts become churned up and then they get shoved to the front

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