There are a number of good reasons to watch and learn from your anxious responses. First, as you watch and learn, you practice stepping out of your secondary anxious response if only for a moment to observe rather than react. In a sense, you practice climbing above your anxious response to look down on the overwhelming feelings of anxiety and panic that might be swirling around you. From this new perspective, you learn when, where, and why you had the SAR, which can lessen

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