It's surprising at first that simply trying to suppress one's own internal dialog and thus staying in the moment for increasingly long periods reduces anxiety but it makes sens if you think that what feed anxiety is the constant relentless thinling about unpleasant past events or feared future ones.

Stop talking to yourself all the time about those things and that crippling fear emotion goes away or at least abates and becomes controllable.

[–] JustZ 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Another thing that's helps me is positive affirmations. Twenty minutes or a half hour in the morning, changing your thinking for hours afterwards. You will feel your brain resolving your inner thoughts positively instead of negatively. And the more you do it the easier it gets, until it becomes just how you think. The more time we can spend thinking positively the more everything just sort of falls into place, or at least our reactions to things.