Reading this great book and it has some great tips that are supposed to be maybe more in a work environment but thought it was super helpful regarding anxiety! 

“Can you fight the urge to panic and instead focus only on what you can change?”

“If an emotion can’t change the donation. Or the situation you’re dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one...it’s the domestication of ones emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.”

“You can always remind yourself: I am in control, not my emotions. I see what’s really going on here. I’m not going to get excited or upset.”

“Subconsciously, we should be constantly asking ourselves this question: do I need to freak out about this? And the answer must be: No because I practiced for this situation and can control myself. Or no, because I caught myself and I’m able to realize that that doesn’t add anything constructive.” 

“Apatheia is the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. NOT the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmful, unhelpful kind. Don’t let the negativity in, don’t let those emotions even get started. Just say: no thank you. I can’t afford to panic” 

“When you worry ask yourself, ‘what am I choosing to not see right now? What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness or wisdom?”