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    Tame Your Anxiety: Anti-Anxiety Habits, #1
    Tame Your Anxiety: Anti-Anxiety Habits, #1
    Tame Your Anxiety: Anti-Anxiety Habits, #1
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    Tame Your Anxiety: Anti-Anxiety Habits, #1

    By Dan Leigh

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    Do anxiety and worry keep you from enjoying life? Feel overwhelmed and stressed a lot of the time? Ever feel like fear is holding you back?

    We all experience anxiety from time to time. But if anxiety becomes chronic, it can be a real drag on your life. You miss out on important opportunities, suffer health consequences, or just feel plain miserable a lot of the time.

    The truth is: anxiety is largely a result of the habits we carry out all day long without thinking. If you have been trying to treat your anxiety without focusing on your habits, you have been missing a major piece of the puzzle.

    The solution is to adopt new, specific habits that support healthy anxiety levels. By making targeted changes to your diet, exercise, relationships, nature exposure and more, you can build a life with reduced anxiety. 

    In Tame Your Anxiety, you will learn how to starve off the bad habits that feed anxiety and replace them with new, beneficial habits.

    In Tame Your Anxiety, author Dan Leigh shares the tips and strategies that have helped him in his own 20-year battle against anxiety and OCD. He outlines 14 specific habits you can incorporate into your daily routine for maximum results.

    Tame Your Anxiety is Book 1 of the Anti-Anxiety Habits series, and is approximately 164 pages in length.

    You will learn:

    • How to change your breathing to gain a lifetime of benefits 

    • 2 simple nutritional supplements that are tactical weapons against anxiety

    • Why most of what you've been taught about exercise is dead wrong

    • A specific type of food no anxiety sufferer should ever eat

    • 1 mineral deficiency that can singlehandedly cause anxiety problems

    • 2 types of mindfulness practice (and how to use them to support your recovery)

    • Why you should seek out fear and anxiety on a daily basis

    Tame Your Anxiety contains specific steps to follow, and plenty of resources to guide you along the road to recovery. This is not a book to be read and forgotten when the next bright, shiny object arrives. It is a book to refer to again and again as you build a life with reduced anxiety.

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    Download Tame Your Anxiety now to put yourself on the road to recovery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDan Leigh
    Release dateJul 24, 2017
    ISBN9781386410188
    Tame Your Anxiety: Anti-Anxiety Habits, #1

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    Tame Your Anxiety - Dan Leigh

    Introduction

    Anxiety is a curious thing. You can’t see it or touch it, but it sure can ruin your life. Anxiety is a feeling . . . an emotion that can suck the joy out of anything you are doing.

    Coincidentally, anxiety and worry helped our ancient ancestors to survive and reproduce. Suppose there were two cavemen. One was a constant worrier, and the other hardly worried at all. Which caveman would have been voted Most Likely to Be Eaten by a Wooly Mammoth?

    The non-worrier caveman, of course. Thus, the worrier would have been more likely to survive and procreate. He also would have had more anxiety, and his quality of life would have been lower.

    Because you are reading this book, I assume you have been struggling with anxiety in some way. Perhaps you have suffered from a crippling anxiety problem your whole life, or maybe you have mild anxiety. You might even take prescription drugs for your anxiety.

    The habits and strategies I lay out in this book can help any anxiety sufferer, from mild to severe and everything in between.

    The approach is drug free, but I would never tell you to stop taking your medication. If you feel like drugs work for you, that is a good thing. However, I think the ultimate goal of every anxiety sufferer should be to get to the root of the problem. Drugs do not fix your anxiety problem. They might relieve symptoms, but if you stop taking the drugs, then your anxiety will be just as before. Work with your healthcare provider to determine what is best for you.

    I believe the only way to truly fix an anxiety problem is to do two things:

    1. Stop doing the habits that are supporting your chronic anxiety.

    2. Start doing habits that support reduced anxiety levels.

    In this book, I will present 14 specific habits that support reduced anxiety. The idea is that your negative, anxiety-supporting habits will be crowded out by the positive, confidence-enhancing habits I teach you.

    Much of our lives revolve around the habits we carry out all day, every day. By harnessing the incredible power of habits, nearly anything can be changed or improved…including chronic anxiety.

    It can be tricky to figure out which habits to focus on, because a lot of the habits that cause anxiety levels to rise are behaviors you wouldn’t suspect. They are habits that deal with diet, exercise, and other life areas that seem to have little to do with anxiety.

    Diet, exercise, relationships, nature exposure, and breathing all have a huge effect on anxiety levels. If you can establish positive habits in these areas and eliminate negative habits, you can pull up your anxiety by the roots.

    Before I get into the specifics of my approach, let me tell you a bit about myself and why I decided to write this book.

    I have suffered from chronic anxiety since my early teens, and I’m now in my mid-30s. That gives me roughly 20 years of experience dealing with my anxiety beast.

    I will confess that the beast has sucked quite a bit of enjoyment out of my life throughout the years. I have a particular anxiety disorder called obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. To me, OCD is like anxiety on steroids with some strange quirks thrown in for good measure. But, at its core, OCD is simply an anxiety disorder.

    I considered writing this book strictly for OCD sufferers, but I decided that would be too limiting. So, I wrote this book for anyone who suffers from chronic anxiety of any kind. There are similarities that we all share, and I want to provide what I’ve learned to be able to help others.

    This book is for you if . . .

    You are a chronic worrier.

    You have chronic anxiety.

    You experience occasional or mild anxiety.

    You have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).

    You have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

    Many of the habits I present are even helpful for people who have little or no anxiety. They are habits that support good health and a long, fulfilling life.

    Let me explain how I wound up devising these particular habits.

    Part I

    The Principles

    1.1 Why Habits for Anxiety

    Six years ago, I became extremely interested in health. After 29 years of eating a standard American diet, my body was showing signs of cracking.

    I was often dizzy, lightheaded, and generally just didn’t feel too good. I wound up researching many topics, trying to find out how to fix myself.

    In the process, many things happened . . .

    I found out the standard American diet (or SAD) is incredibly unhealthy and full of processed foods.

    I gave up wheat and all other grains.

    I discovered I have a real interest in natural health, and I listened to thousands of hours of interviews with leaders such as Dr. Joseph Mercola, David Avocado Wolfe, and Daniel Vitalis.

    I became a practitioner of Taoism, an ancient Chinese spiritual and philosophical system.

    I went on a quest to solve my own problems and wound up discovering many truths I think are overlooked in society. Many of these truths have been lost during the last century, buried underneath the twin forces of modern life and capitalism.

    In short, I believe I have uncovered what allows anxiety problems to thrive, and what quiets them.

    My system involves . . .

    Creating habits that improve the most significant areas of your life (diet, exercise, relationships, etc.)

    Implementing the wisdom of Eastern philosophical traditions into your daily life.

    Eating more like your ancestors did.

    Asking nature for assistance in healing.

    And a whole lot more . . .

    I want to let you know upfront that my approach is unconventional. My views on health, diet, exercise, and most everything else run counter to those of the medical establishment and mainstream media. I believe that as a society we suffer from a real lack of quality information. This is due in large part to the fact that our society is basically ruled by capitalism. Large corporations do not want us to know the truth, because it doesn’t serve their bottom lines. The less we know, the more money they make.

    As I mentioned earlier, I had to search far and wide to find the truth about a lot of issues. I will share much of what I know in this book. I just wanted to alert you to the fact that much of the advice I give might seem strange at first. My approach is based on returning to a more natural way of life that is closer to how our ancestors lived.

    My goal with this book is to give you a system, based on habit creation, that allows you to construct a lifestyle that supports reduced anxiety.

    The habits I will teach you in this book are what I call foundational habits. They are substantial habits that can change your life.

    Some will be harder than others. They are large habits, so they will often take a fairly large effort . . . but not always. This book is designed to be worked with during a period of months or even years. Habits take time to form, and I suggest you give yourself the necessary time.

    In other words, don’t get overwhelmed. Life is a journey, so it’s best to

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