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 Vanderleak here with Ananga Civier,

and we come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer

sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we love sharing a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety and this week

we're going to be discussing an excellent question from our Facebook page and is, why does anxiety cause awful thoughts and how can we stop them?

I thought that was a great conversation for us to have today Ananga. Welcome, it's wonderful to be together with you again today in another

episode of Anxiety Slayer.

Hi, Shan.

I think this is one of the biggest challenges when living with anxiety, these thoughts that go on behind the scenes in our mind we can appear to be spending time with somebody doing something, but inside we're just feeling awful really shaken up when these thoughts occur in our minds.

Of course they can come in all kinds of different flavours, horrible images, negative

predictions, fear of loss, fear of going crazy, these awful thoughts that just flare up and then

catch our attention and we start getting snagged on them and developing them further.

And the triggers for these things can be really hard to put your finger on because it can come from just about anywhere.

And I had an experience over the weekend where there seemed to be so much going on in the world news.

Tragic weather and death and war and you know just all of that

stuff just felt like too much and being very sensitive person as I know you are as well and so many of our listeners are

it started to kind of take me down that that road of negative predictions and

and fear for the world and what it's going to be like for my daughter and for her children

and those kinds of things.

And I was with a friend and realized that I had somehow gotten lost in that train of thought

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