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Relaxing breathing exercise 1

Anxious stressed breathing is often shallow breathing. 

Deep breaths relax your mind by helping you focus on something other than your worries and relax your body by oxygenating your cells. I think of it as bathing your nerve endings in oxygen--so that the electrical currents jump the nerve ending synapses more smoothly and you feel less frazzled and edgy. 

The video below shows Dr Andrew Weil, MD, demonstrating the yoga 4-7-8 breathing exercise. 

How to Stop Negative Self-Talk 0

You can be your own worst enemy. Negative critical messages you say to yourself can rev up your stress, hold you back, and take you down!

When I was devouring self-help books in my 30’s, one of the books I read was “Mind Traps.” It’s a huge book but the basic concept is simple: What you say to yourself is important. You don’t have to keep repeating the negative messages.

The book spurred me on to notice what I was saying to myself.

Read on for:

• examples of negative self-talk
• 3 Steps for How to Stop Negative Self-talk, and
• a negative self-talk extinguishing exercise

Stop Procrastination Now! - Anxiety Tip #12 0

I would have had this article done sooner but I kept putting it off. Just kidding – a bit of procrastination humor. :) 

Stop that feeling of impending doom and worry that time is running out (or has run out) on meeting deadlines large and small.

Anxiety and Adrenal Fatigue 0

This is a guest post by Dr. Jessica Corbeille, ND.

Anxiety impacts your body, and your body impacts your anxiety. It’s a vicious cycle that winds you up and wears you down.

Are you someone who would describe yourself as "having anxiety"? Are there physical symptoms that you feel in your body when you feel anxious?

Are you also someone who describes yourself as having low energy, being exhausted, or worn out?

You may be experiencing both anxiety and "adrenal fatigue".

The Dichotomous Thinking Right/Wrong Trap 0

Dichotomous thinking is black-or-white, all-or-nothing thinking. “Di” means two. With dichotomous thinking, there are only two options.

It is not a very real way of viewing the world. Most things in reality have more than two options. Most situations have a whole continuum of possibilities between the two polar opposites.

 Dichotomous thinking creates many mind traps.

Vitamin D: the Anti-Anxiety Vitamin 0

This is a guest post by Dr. Jessica Corbeille, ND. 

Most people agree—they feel happier on a sunny day than a gloomy day.

Why is this?

Is it perhaps this vitamin D that makes us happy? If so, what else can Vitamin D do for you?