6 WAYS TO EASE ANXIETY

1 JUST SAY IT: ‘I’M ANXIOUS’

his sounds dumb, I know, but just saying, ‘I’m anxious’ can make you less anxious. A recent study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map the electrical activity in the brains of subjects who were shown pictures of people with different emotional facial expressions. When the subjects were simply shown the pictures, their amygdalae were activated. [This is a set of neurons deep in your brain’s medial temporal lobe. It plays a key role in the processing of emotions]. But when they were shown