Anxiety Slayer

This week we celebrate our 100th Anxiety Slayer podcast. As a big thank you to our listeners we have created a program of 30 Days of Slayer Self-Care. In this podcast, Ananga shares the 100 Breaths Meditation Exercise as the first practice for a self-supportive and peaceful 30 days ahead. To join in and receive our daily tips please come and hang out with us on facebook.

In this podcast Shann shares an easy yoga exercise that can help you rest and calm your mind. It's not tricky or bendy and you can do it at home anytime.

Shann and Ananga discuss exercise and anxiety and share tips for discovering which type of exercise might suit you best and how you can get it working for you in overcoming anxiety.

Ananga talks about simple ways to care for your mind and help it experience more peace every day.

In this podcast Shann talks about 5 common misconception about practising yoga for relief from stress and anxiety. For further info please see: Guided Yoga Downloads for Stress & Anxiety Relief Simple Yoga for Anxiety Relief: Child's Pose How to Use Yoga Breathing Exercises to Feel Calm Yoga Breathing to Calm your Mind

Shann and Ananga answer a question about anxiety symptoms and how to support yourself through anxiety attacks and their unwelcome physical effects.

In this podcast Shann shares a simple exercise that will support you to locate where your breath originates and help you deepen your understanding of how regulating your breath can help you remain cool, calm and collected when faced with anxiety. To discover more anxiety breathing techniques that can help you tame your anxiety, please visit the Slayer Store at AnxietySlayer.com

In this podcast Shann shares five tips for starting your day in  calm and positive way. For more self help anxiety tips, please visit us at AnxietySlayer.com

In this podcast Ananga talks about the chaotic nature of anxiety attacks and how you can protect yourself from getting swept away by the awful thoughts and physical symptoms that anxiety can suddenly manifest. For more information on Coping Skills for Anxiety Attacks please visit our Self Help Anxiety Blog at www.AnxietySlayer.com

In this week's podcast Shann coaches you through a journaling session to help you write your way through tough times. For more support please look up the Anxiety Rescue Kit on AnxietySlayer.com

In this Anxiety Slayer interview Shann and Ananga talk about how to process painful emotions, the importance of acknowledging your feelings, and where to find the support and tools than can help you cope.

We were recently interviewed for the Huffington Post by the wonderful Kari Henley who also asked us to appear on her Morning Cup show. The topic was supporting yourself when you have anxiety, we thought you might enjoy the conversation...

In this podcast Ananga shares a shortcut version of progressive muscle relaxation as a three minute stressbuster that you can use anywhere to help you relax and unwind.

Anger can be a destructive emotion if we allow ourselves to get out of control and remain attached to our agenda and outcome. Hanging on to the venom of destructive feelings can cause dis-ease, trigger depression, and a general sense of malaise. In this podcst Shann shares five key tips for healthily processing anger.

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. For more anxiety breathing techniques, please visit AnxietySlayer.com

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.

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.

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

In this podcast, Shann talks about how slowing your breath can help you calm your mind and shares a simple breathing exercise for you to try.

In this podcast Shann and Ananga talk about what causes setbacks or relapses on the road to recovery from anxiety and how we can best support ourselves when we hit a bump in the road. For more tips and techniques on slaying your anxiety please visit us at www.AnxietySlayer.com