Anxiety Slayer Toolkit: Practical techniques for anxiety relief

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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#683: This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we‘re sharing practical techniques that provide anxiety relief, including breathing exercises, grounding techniques and a host of daily practices to help you overcome challenges and create more peace. Anxiety Slayer is sponsored by BetterHelp A lot of us spend our lives wishing we could carve out more time for ourselves. And often feel like we simply don’t have the ability to claim it. Therapy can help you learn to set boundaries and uncover what’s important to you so you can enjoy more of what brings you joy. It isn’t just for those who’ve experienced major trauma. If you’re thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It’s easy. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist, and switch therapists any time for no additional charge. Visit BetterHelp.com/slayer today to get 10% off your first month.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leek. Every week, Ananga and I offer a holistic, compassionate approach to managing anxiety, drawing upon our many years of experience.
0:24.0	We aim to equip you with tools and strategies you can implement immediately
0:28.0	to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and
0:33.7	cultivate a sense of calm resilience.
0:33.8	Before we get started, we'd like to give a shout out to our new patrons,
0:38.3	Alyssa, Claire, Richard, and Karen.
0:41.3	Thank you so much for supporting Anxiety Slayer.
0:45.0	And if you'd like to become an Anxiety Slayer patron, you can unlock a world of support with over 200 downloads at Patreon.com slash Anxiety Slayer.
0:57.0	Today we're focusing on proven and practical techniques that provide anxiety relief.
1:06.1	We'll be sharing breathing exercises,
1:08.3	grounding techniques and a host of daily practices
1:12.0	to help you overcome challenges, cultivate more peace, and thrive.
1:17.1	And speaking of thriving, Ananga, thank you so much for showing up today when you're not feeling so great and I really appreciate you showing up with your sultry deep voice and having this conversation.
1:33.0	Hey Shan, happy to be with you even though I sound a little different.
1:39.0	Well, I hope that you're feeling better than you were yesterday and I do really appreciate you carving out the time
1:45.4	when when you are feeling a bit unwell. It's a pleasure. Let's begin our conversation with our favorite go-to breathing exercise for anxiety relief.
2:00.0	Yeah, something we've shared many times over the years is a practice called the long
2:06.8	exhale. I'd like to say a little bit about how breathing techniques are so helpful for calming anxiety and
2:15.4	once you've learned one or two favorites you can practice them anywhere.
2:20.2	Just three minutes of calm breathing can help you settle racing thoughts and calm anxiety.
2:27.0	Many people living with high levels of anxiety tend to breathe high up in their chest and shallow breathing can increase anxiety by
2:36.4	building into hyperventilation. So slow, steady breathing and focusing on a longer exhalation redresses this imbalance, this hyperventilating,
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