This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're discussing how you can learn to respond to information from your nervous system.

Hey Ananga, welcome back.

Hey Shannon. When you're overwhelmed or triggered, there's a lot of uncomfortable energy in your body.

I call it like this fizzy, jangly nature or feeling.

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 that's coming in from your nervous system.

Yeah, the big challenge when you're living with anxiety is that we tend to respond to everything like it's an alarm or an alert.

And Iravader teaches that when that energy that we've discussed many times before, when the Vata energy is high, then we tend to quickly

go to worst-case scenario thinking, so whatever we're experiencing can make us feel triggered

because you can feel like there's just so much going on inside you

that you really don't want to hang out with yourself, you don't want to be there.

So that's the big challenge with anxiety 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.

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.

That fight or flight, cortisol kicking in.

What if you sat with that for a moment and reminded yourself that this is okay?

Sometimes this happens, I'm going to breathe, I'm going to look after myself, I don't have to scroll. I don't have to lose myself in watching a bunch of episodes on Netflix or playing games on my phone or whatever it is that we often do to change how we feel.

But what if we sat with it a bit?

That's the other challenges and it is just so easy.

We have right at our fingertips as we recently discussed so many ways to distract ourselves.

I was talking with a friend a few days ago and she just sat down to watch one episode of something

and she said the second the episode finished playing the next one came on and then the next one came on

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