In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding untidiness in the environment, cleaning and anxiety.  Gina draws from her own personal experience with this problem and how her perception of dirtiness in the home could be influenced by the level of stress and anxiety she was experiencing.  Solutions to this issue are recommended, including stopping and checking the impulse to clean and using breathing to restore a level of peace and calm before proceeding.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
– Deepak Chopra
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847: Coping With Anxiety And Cleaning Listener Q and A

In today's episode, Gina discusses the causes of negative self-talk, especially for the anxious, and shares techniques for reducing and eliminating such self-talk.  Replacing such negative self-talk with affirmative self-talk can be very helpful.  Several examples of both negative and positive self-talk are included as are strategies for reducing the negative thoughts and strengthening the positive thoughts.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. 
-Maya Angelou
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846: Shifting Negative Self Talk To Quiet Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina shares strategies for how to deal with anxious expectations.  Of particular interest in this episode are the powerful journal exercises that can help turn your expectations into a force of great positivity in your life.  Use the power of your expectations to steer yourself towards the good things in life and watch how you expand the overall positivity and abundance available to you.
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All negativity is an illusion created by the limited mind to protect and defend itself.
– Ambika Wauters
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845: How to Deal with Anxious Expectations

In today's episode, Gina talks about the importance of acceptance and change in healing anxiety. In particular, Gina discusses the benefits of allowing our anxiety experience to unfold, in contrast to fighting the anxiety and trying (often desperately) to make it stop. The fear of and fight against the anxiety is exactly what keeps anxiety sufferers in the loop of anxiety-panic. Listen in for suggestions on how to prevent this anxiety loop from taking over your life.
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott
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844: Classic ACP How Acceptance and Change Help With Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of practicing meditation for improving our strength of mind and reducing intrusive thoughts and other anxiety related mental noise.  Steps for setting up a core meditation routine are reviewed.  The benefits of a regular meditation practice are reviewed.  Listen in and improve your meditation practice today!
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
-Ajahn Brahm
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843: How To Use Insight To Clear Away Anxious Noise

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of rest for our overall well-being and resistance to excessive anxiety. Understanding that getting enough rest time is critical to our overall health and well-being can help ease any sense of guilt we may have regarding making rest time for ourselves. Of course, adding mindfulness to our rest time can make it even more effective for anxiety-soothing purposes. Self-reflection questions are included at the end of the show.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
– Marcus Aurelius
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842: How To Rest Without Feeling Guilty

In today's episode, Gina shares eight possible solutions for morning anxiety.  Waking up earlier is one of the first tips and helps enable one to enact some of the other solutions more readily.  Our frequent friends meditation and exercise are included, as is the ever so important of increasing time offline.  Listen in to hear the rest of these invaluable tips and reduce morning anxiety today!
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“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” ―Steve Maraboli
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841: 8 Solutions For Morning Stress And Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of breathing and grounding to help establish a sense of peace and calm.  A number of breathing focused affirmations are provided to help us utilize this ever-present tool available to us.  Finally a number of self-reflection questions are provided to help us better understand what upsets us and how grounding and breathing help us to feel better.
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Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. – Thich Nhat Hanh
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840: Breathing And Grounding To Calm Your Anxious Mind

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding agoraphobia and using alcohol as an anxiety treatment. Social anxiety is touched upon before a discussion of the perils of alcohol use for the anxiety sufferer. In the long run, alcohol makes anxiety worse. Simple, practical tips for staying calm when out in the world are included.
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Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.
- Russ Harris
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839: Anxiety Agoraphobia and Alcohol Listener Q and A

In today's episode, Gina discusses avoidance and aversion in the context of anxiety. Included in this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of how we interpret signals and information that we are perceiving and how very often we are able to choose whether or not we are threatened by a particular thing. Anxiety sufferers tend to be biased toward overestimating the threat of things. Listen in for tips on how to overcome this tendency.

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
 -Marie Curie
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838: Classic ACP Why Avoidance and Aversion Don't Help With Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses behaviors that are harmful to our lives and increase our stress and anxiety. The importance of reducing these behaviors is discussed, as are ways to go about doing so. Listen in to find out what kinds of thoughts and behaviors you should work to eliminate from your life and improve your quality of life today!
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Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.
- Jon Katzenbach
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837: Toxic Behaviors That Add To Stress And Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina presents on a paradoxical topic: that self-care practices could actually be contributing to keeping your anxiety level high! Use your gift of reasoning to examine your anxiety and anxiety-care situation through a different lens. Check your self-care practices and throw out those that may not really be helping you and focus in on those that are giving you relief. Listen in for advice on how to do this!
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear.
– Confucius
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836: Is Self Care Keeping You Anxious

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding anxiety, exercise and skipped heartbeats. Some of the physiology behind the sensation of skipped heartbeats is discussed as well as how adrenaline released during exercise can make the occurrence more likely. The safety and how to handle this experience is also covered.
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Link mentioned in the show for more information on PVCs and exercise
https://www.livestrong.com/article/426515-frequent-pvcs-during-exercises/
Book mentioned by Kelly McGonigal
The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
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When you exercise, it increases endorphins, dopamine, adrenaline and endocannabinoid — these are all brain chemicals associated with feeling happy, feeling confident, feeling capable, feeling less anxiety and stress and even less physical pain.
-Dr. Kelly McGonical
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835: Anxiety Exercise and Skipped Heartbeats

In today's episode, Gina shares some helpful affirmations you can use to float through any stress that comes your way. Initially, the affirmations are mentioned and discussed. Later, Gina slows down the affirmations and reads them as a brief guided meditation. Listen in to add these affirmations to your anxiety-reduction repertoire!
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The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. -Marcus Aurelius
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834: Floating Stress Away Affirmations

In today's show, Gina shares nine common myths that people hold regarding anxiety. From details about the physiological consequences of anxiety to how (and how not to) treat anxiety, dispelling these myths will make you more knowledgeable about your anxiety and help you to cope more effectively.
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“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
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833: 9 Myths About Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of learning to stimulate your vagus nerve, thereby enabling your body to reduce the stress and anxiety you may be experiencing. Listen in as Gina shares more than five techniques for stimulating your vagus nerve and thereby activating your parasympathetic nervous system and entering the safe, secure, "relax and digest" state of being.
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Episode 307 on the vagus nerve:
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
-Chinese Proverb
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832: Classic ACP Letting Your Body Turn Down The Stress

In today's episode, Gina discusses the great benefits of solitude and alone time. Being alone allows one to reflect on their present condition, recharge emotionally, and make plans for improvements in one's life. Listen in to learn the benefits and being alone and how to take some special alone time for yourself!
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Quote:
In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet you’ll find peace. In solitude you’ll remember yourself.
-Robin Sharma
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831: 5 Healing Powers of Solitude

In today's episode, Gina discusses the critical topic of technology-induced stress and how to better manage it. A multi-step process is shared, including self-reflective components, to better understand how technology increases stress in our lives. Suggestions for easy to implement changes in our various technology settings will help us ease the stress technology delivers to easily into our lives!
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Simplicity boils down to two things: identify the essential and eliminate the rest.
-Leo Babauta
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830: 5-Step Process to Reduce Tech-Based Stress

In today's episode, Gina discusses the miraculous power of part of our endogenous pharmacopeia: our happiness hormones. Oxytocin and endorphins are discussed in some detail. Easy to use techniques to increase these helpful chemicals are included.
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We must cultivate our own garden.
-Voltaire
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829: Cultivate Your Happiness Hormones

In today's episode, Gina talks about the importance of embracing imperfection, particularly in contrast to the common tendency of holding yourself to standards of perfection. Giving yourself permission to be yourself and not judging yourself based on your achievements can do wonders for your sense of self-worth and mental health.


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Book Mentioned in the episode
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
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Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it. —Salvador Dali

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