If You're Feeling Anxious, Try This 2,000-Year-Old, Neuroscience-Backed Hack
Imagining the worst that can happen through dedicated 'worry time’ can help stop anxiety in its tracks.
«In scientific terms, that exercise is called imaginal exposure, or “facing the thing you’re most afraid of” by summoning it in your mind»
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