How to listen to your nervous system and respond with care

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

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The This episode of Anxiety Slayer is sponsored by BetterHelp.
0:32.9	Give online therapy a try and save 10% on your first month at betterhelp.com slash slayer. That's
0:41.0	BetterHelphelp.com slash slayer. This week on the Anxiety Slayer podcast, we're discussing how you can
0:50.0	learn to respond to information from your nervous system.
0:55.6	Hey, Ananga, welcome back.
0:56.6	Hey, Sean.
1:03.3	When you're overwhelmed or triggered, there's a lot of uncomfortable energy in your body.
1:07.9	I call it like this fizzy, jangly nature or feeling.
1:13.4	And today we're going to share what you can do to feel better when you're stressed, triggered, upset or overtired, and how you can make sense of all of that information
1:19.0	that's coming in from your nervous system. Yeah, the big challenge when you're living with
1:25.9	anxiety is that we tend to respond to everything
1:28.7	like it's an alarm or an alert. And Ayurveda teaches that when that energy that we've discussed
1:35.7	many times before, when the Vata energy is high, then we tend to quickly go to worst case
1:42.2	scenario thinking. So whatever we're experiencing can make us feel triggered
1:46.4	because you can feel like there's just so much going on inside you
1:49.7	that you really don't want to hang out with yourself.
1:52.8	You don't want to be there.
1:54.2	So that's the big challenge with anxiety.
1:57.3	And then we can feel drawn to distraction, something that's going to give us a quick burst of relief, something that's just going to take us away from those feelings.
2:10.8	And it's so interesting how there's this need to not be with whatever is going on. Like, oh my gosh, I have to run away from that.
2:21.0	That fight or flight, cortisol kicking in. What if you sat with that for a moment and reminded
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