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5 Truths about Anxiety to Help You Stay Present

…e, on a certain level, we believe that if we anticipate or imagine what we fear, we can somehow have more control over the situation. Some of us even hold a sense that anxiety protects us from the future, often through the misguided belief that if we worry about them, our worst fears won’t happen. In our effort to control the uncontrollable or be certain about uncertainty, we rehearse tragedy and tell ourselves scary stories, but to what effect? W…