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109 Anxiety: What It Is and How To Respond To It

The Place We Find Ourselves

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How to Relieve Anxiety

Anxiety is a limbic system experience, the part that's in the middle of the brain. There are two ways to respond to anxiety: top-down approaches and bottom-up approaches. Breathing will immediately begin to calm your anxious limbic brain. And then after you have breathed a little, ask yourself, what else would bring my body a deeper sense of calm? answers might include certain pieces of music.

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