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.

You've no doubt heard that meditation and breathing can help you calm your anxiety. But if you're going through a bad patch, the mere thought of stopping... your all we want to do is escape from our minds and the thought of spending time in relaxation feels highly undesirable.

We might get caught up in endless chores, games, TV shows, Facebook scanning, or to escape our thoughts, and sometimes we'll do it to the point of exhaustion.

While this may give some temporary relief via diversion, it's hard to maintain, and it's the nature of the mind to keep pushing

unwanted thoughts and fears back at us when we resist taking quiet time to rest and allow

our thoughts to settle.

We need to stop because if we don't, our body will do it for us.

It may be simply exhausted and force us to stop,

or it may come down with a cold or virus due to

being strained by our over-exertion in trying to escape our thoughts. When this

happens anxiety can swamp us even more as we feel overtired, unwell and unable to escape.

So how can we stop and rest in a safe way, in a way that feels comfortable to us, where a mind can discharge

unwanted thoughts and we can reduce anxiety, rather than feel confronted by the very

things we're trying to run away from.

There are ways you can use active relaxation to stop and rest without increasing your anxiety.

Active relaxation keeps the mind engaged and free from anxious thoughts

as your body releases tension and invokes the much needed relaxation response.

Practices like Chigung, Taichi,

yoga, or mindful walking

can all help the mind settle and the body relax

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