You can feed your adrenaline pump with anxious thoughts or you can starve it with calming thoughts or by redirecting your thinking. A calming thought might be “this is only temporary, I will go with the flow and the adrenaline will play out as I relax into it and breathe deeply, slowly and calmly.” You can also redirect your thinking by just focusing on your breathing. Four point breathing interrupts your thought flow as you internally count slowly to four as you breathe in, count to four while holding your breath, count to four as you breathe out, and then don’t breathe for four counts. Keep repeating this pattern until your body feels calmer. Both the controlled breathing and the controlling of your thoughts through the silent counting help reduce the production of adrenaline and therefore your anxiety.

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