Frequent. Effective practice in stepping toward discomfort means that you repeat the practice until you experience real change in the intensity and duration of your anxious response. At times, you might have decided to face your anxious response, only to discover that you became more anxious than you had anticipated, so you lost your nerve. Infrequent practice decreases confidence, because it’s difficult to master something that frightens you if you practice just once or only a few times.

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