Welcome to the Slayer sessions with Shannon Ananga. Our mission is to wipe out the fear and discomfort of anxiety. We've been talking a lot together privately and within our interviews about this power that comes and the self support that comes from learning to check in with ourselves. And Iravader talks a lot about

self-study, about really just having quiet times during your day, preferably every day,

where you can just check in and see how you're doing.

And for a lot of people who are living busy lives that seems highly impractical,

if not a bit strange, but just to give a working example for myself,

I'm very happy to do that when I'm driving,

if I'm in my garden, if I'm taking a walk,

or sometimes I'll be working busily on the computer and I just need to

sit back and step outside with some tea and just take a few deep breaths.

Sometimes you feel like you're going off track a bit with what you're doing and you need to

just find your way back and

re-centre yourself. It's nice to take time, preferably in the quieter times of the day

like the early morning, to really know where you're at and know what you want to do with your day

and know where you're going with yourself. That's majorly beneficial. But we can also develop this

sense of self-study and self-awareness that's with us all the time.

And that just becomes how we operate, like when you look at an email and you realize

I've made a few typos in a short email, you know I can't operate at my best when this is happening

this is happening because my brain's overloaded and I need space.

I need to come back at that when I've rested myself.

I rate is very big on encouraging us to just notice how we react to what's going on around us and to be aware of what foods are helpful to us, what foods may not be so

beneficial to our health, and to look at the quality of everything that's going on around us, our emotional expressions, what emotions

are we expressing most frequently, what's our usual response to unexpected

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