For example, driving on the freeway once a month is much less effective than doing so several times a week to overcome your fear of driving. Effective practice, then, is repeated practice that continues until you have mastered a particular step on your practice ladder. Additionally, you’ll recover from your anxiety problems or disorder faster and with less discomfort if you practice stepping toward discomfort thirty or forty minutes a day, rather than five minutes a day. The more you put into it, the faster you’ll recover.

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