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.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my Slayer,

sister and partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page and we love sharing a powerful

collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. Today we're going to discuss

strategies for dealing with fearfulness around repetitive thoughts.

Many thanks for your fantastic podcasts.

I wondered if at some point you might be able to touch upon some strategies for dealing

with fearfulness around repetitive thoughts and inward thinking constantly having anxiety on your mind.

I guess my anxiety has always been fairly thought-based in nature,

often causing my mind to turn sharply inwards.

It feels like I have a tentacle-like focus on myself,

high self-awareness,

and an almost obsessive desire to think about myself and the anxiety.

I'd love to be able to come to terms with this symptom but keep coming up against fearful

thoughts such as,

What if I can never have normal outward thought,

or what if I get trapped inside my head forever?

Or, oh no, I'm thinking about it again. It's got to the point that each time I wake and think about anxious thoughts,

I get a sharp stab of fear, which can often trigger an uneasy relationship with my thoughts that lasts for much of the day.

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