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's sister, Ananga Severe.

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

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety, and we've been partnered up and sharing our

podcast with you now for over six years. Thanks for listening. Today we're

going to discuss a listener question but before we do that welcome Ananga.

Hi Shan. How you doing? I'm good today thank you and you? I'm doing all right. So I'm going to

launch right into the question.

Hello, Anxiety Slayer, I often listen to your podcast,

which are a great help to me.

But I often find myself thinking that something is wrong. my thoughts get out of control and the anxiety overrides everything.

My thoughts of calming myself down are non-existent.

How can I help nip these thoughts in the bud and tell myself I'm okay, that I'm not dying,

that I don't need surgery, etc, etc. Do you know why our brains override good thoughts with extremely bad ones?

This is a question that we actually hear a lot that our thoughts get out of

control and anxiety overrides everything.

And so I'd love for us to dig a little bit deeper into why our brains,

why do they override our good thoughts with extremely bad ones?

From what I've read from Iraveda, India's ancient system of healthcare,

there's a lot of teachings there on the mind and the nature of the mind and it's very interesting to me

because you know we're born with the mind

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