Sleep Soundly: Quieting Your Mind for Restful Sleep

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

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, I'm Shan Banderleak here with my good friend and co-host
0:16.4	Ananga Civier. We've been creating podcasts for our listeners since 2009 and just surpassed a milestone of 700 free episodes.
0:28.0	Before we get started today, we'd like to give a shout out to our new patrons,
0:31.6	Melissa and Jennifer, for supporting our work on
0:34.8	Patreon. You can become an anxiety Slayer patron and unlock a community of
0:39.7	support, guidance, and inner calm, plus more than 200 downloads.
0:45.0	Join today at Patreon.com slash Anxiety Slayer.
0:50.0	This week is our final episode of the Restful Night Series, where we've been blending
0:58.0	ancient wisdom with modern insights to help you get a good night's rest.
1:03.2	And today's conversation is all about sleeping soundly
1:08.3	and quieting your mind so that you can get a good sleep.
1:12.2	Welcome back, Nanga.
1:13.7	Hey Shen.
1:15.2	The sleep series is really and fun to record with you.
1:20.5	I'm glad that we have been talking about more and more practices and ideas for better sleep.
1:27.4	Yeah me too I hope it's been helpful for our listeners. It can take a while to figure out what's
1:32.2	affecting our sleep so I'm glad we've had a few discussions on this.
1:38.0	And we know that anxiety and sleep can affect each other in what seems like a never ending loop that's very
1:46.0	challenging to live with. Anxiety makes the mind unsettled which keeps us awake
1:52.4	with our worries, our worries about today, tomorrow, next week, next year,
1:58.4	whatever you might have on the calendar coming up, whatever might be happening on the world stage.
2:04.1	And this lack of sleep can increase anxiety big time.
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