Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

How To Use Your Breath To Control Anxious Thoughts

When you want to escape from anxiety, one of the easiest ways to do it is to use your breath. Every emotion you experience has it's own breathing pattern: anger produces rapid erratic breathing, sadness makes us sigh, and anxiety has a shallow rapid breathing pattern.
In this podcast, Ananga talks you through a simple exercise you can use anywhere to control anxious thoughts.
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Are your lofty expectations causing you more stress?

Continuing on with the discussion on how expectations can cause stress in our lives, Shann talks about how we often set the bar too high for ourselves and how we can support ourselves by switching to a low stress way of doing things.

Expectation or Invitation?

In this podcast Shann talks about how our expectations of ourselves and others can increase our stress levels, but when we use invitations instead our experience can be very different.

How to Start Taming Your Anxiety

One of the problems with tackling anxiety is that it feels so urgent and awful that it can be confusing to know where to begin.
Even if you do have an idea of where you'd like to start  it can seem that simple techniques like breathing exercises are not enough to tackle something that feels like an emergency.
In this podcast Ananga talks about developing confidence in a skill that can help you tame anxiety, and knowing how and when to apply it.
Tools to help you tame anxiety mentioned in the podcast:
Anxiety Breathing Techniques: Belly Breathing and the Long Exhale
Acupressure for Anxiety Relief: The Quick Anxiety Stopper