Don’t use your anchor to run away or distract yourself from your anxious response. That’s just more of the problem. Instead, the anchor is to guide your attention and awareness back to the present moment when you’re feeling anxious. Once you’re in the present moment, check in with the parts of your secondary anxious response: anxious mind, anxious body, and anxious
actions. Once you’re aware of your anxious response in this way, you can more easily determine

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