When we bring our worries into conscious awareness, we also slow them down and bring them squarely into the present moment, and as those worries need to transport you to the future to have any impact, being in the present suspends their power.

but I did feel like a child in a doctor costume.

1. There is a sense of alarm that occurs outside of the brain. This fight-or-flight sensation is the remnant of old, unresolved trauma we suffered, typically in childhood. It is usually felt in the midline of the body around the heart. I’ll talk about this alarm in great detail in Part

We feel we need to minimize uncertainty at all costs. The other name for minimizing uncertainty is control.

Anxiety is a normal coping mechanism that has gotten out of control. It’s like putting a smoke detector in a cigar lounge.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our

Although that could never happen ...

Where awareness goes, energy flows.

Anxiety is a thinking process of the mind.