Welcome to the Slayer sessions with Shannon Ananga. Our mission is to wipe out the fear and discomfort of anxiety. The last time we talked about Ayurveda we touched upon some mind types, some things that really got you fired up that you wanted to explore and

share with our listeners and I thought it might be a good idea to start there

today so that we can share some clues to knowing your mind type, meaning the signs and traits of the Vata,

Pita, and Kafa mind that we touched on, I guess in the last couple of interviews.

Yeah.

Basically, how these different mind types respond to stress and anxiety.

What a fascinating subject which I'm sure we could talk about for the entire interview.

So why don't we go ahead and start there? Okay, it's a vast

subject but it's one where it's very easy to give people a quick grasp of

of getting to know their mind better and how to work with their mind better.

And what really prompted me to look into this with

Iraveda is how weird it is that we learn to drive a car.

And we take lessons for months or sometimes years, but we seldom learn how to drive our mind

and to realize that actually the mind is a tool that we can work with and that our intelligence

should be driving with.

But sometimes when we're suffering with stress and anxiety,

we're just caught up in what's happening.

And it's kind of like listening to the clunking noises a car makes

when you're driving along, but not really knowing what to do about them, how to work with the

vehicle. So it's always really fascinating to me that we have an entry point where we can look at,

why do I respond like this to this situation? How is it that some people

respond by stepping back in a confrontation and others come right forward and

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