1. DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM YOUR ANXIETIES
Bouts of anxiety often begin with catastrophic thinking about an upcoming event. You start imagining the myriad ways you'll make a fool of yourself on a first date; you picture yourself tongue-tied during an interview; or you conjure vivid images of the various ways that an aeroplane can malfunction.
One way to dampen anxiety is to calm these racing thoughts. Don't do this with brute mental force – simply trying to stifle the thoughts and push
