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Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my wonderful friend and partner,

Anangasivir. We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and

Facebook page.

Together Ananga and I share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

Today we're going to be discussing what makes health

anxiety worse and how gratitude can help it get better. Hello Ananga.

Hi Shen. It's wonderful to be with you again today talking more about health anxiety and how gratitude can really

change that place of anxiety and fear to a place of love and hope.

Anxiety is a very constricting feeling it really makes us feel squeezed in and shrunk down and of course gratitude is the opposite

to that. It's very expansive and open state of mind so definitely helpful in overcoming all kinds

of anxiety but particularly I think health anxiety.

One of the things that I've noticed in my household is that if something comes up, if I have symptoms or my daughter has something that she's dealing with,

the very last thing we ought to do is try and Google them.

Because when you get online and start searching for what it is that you're experiencing,

I really believe that that makes it worse because you really don't know and then all kinds of new information comes forward and I feel like

that's just where we ought to start is talking about you don't Google your

symptoms. Yeah I remember years ago before the internet my mother-in-law used to have a

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