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.

Hello, Ananga. It's wonderful to come back together again for another Slayer session where we answer a listener's question and this one is right up my alley and really glad that it came in that we can we can talk about it and I'll just go ahead and read that and then we can dive right in.

Last night during meditation my heart started racing. My anxiety has come back a bit the past week and I've been working through it.

However, last night unsettled me somewhat because meditation is often my safe haven.

Anxiety doesn't touch me there, but last night it encroached on that sacred

territory made me mad too that it had that ability. Was happy that within a minute or

two I had tamed the racing heart, but of course the annoyance, dismay at

it having happened during my meditation left me unable to sleep and tense for the remainder

of the night.

Has this happened to you? I don't want to become

apprehensive about future meditation as I love it so much. Just need to ask. Thanks

so much. Great question. Yeah, it's happened to us. Oh my goodness hasn't happened to us.

One of the real challenges with dealing with anxiety is that it is all pervasive. It will come in your safe spaces and it will

come in your quiet places because it loves filling the space when there's a

bit of quiet in us and a bit of room then as we've described it before like a attention-seeking toddler it will come and tug on your sleeve and try and get you to pay attention.

I think for me one of the lessons with that has been that if you can deal with anxiety in your safe spaces, in your safe haven, in your meditation and your quiet times,

if you can tackle it there and use your breathing as this listener has to

slow it down and manage to settle your own heart then that's a great victory and I

think sometimes we tend to be hard on ourselves and fearful because of the nature of anxiety.

We feel like if it can get us there, it can get us anywhere.

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