Manage your anxiety psychologically by:

• Don’t listen to your worry voice. Tell yourself, “It’s just my anxious brain firing wrong.” Then begin a minute of deep breathing.

• Put some fun in your life. Learn to laugh and enjoy yourself. Make a list of the things that make you laugh and then pursue them.

• Empty your mind of your anxieties. Sit in a quiet place, eyes closed, and envision yourself emptying your worries into a container.

• Command yourself to stop dwelling on an anxiety – and follow it up with a reinforcing statement, such as “I ‘m not going to let this poison my thoughts!”

• Learn to plan instead of worry by identifying the problem, listing the problem solving options, picking one of the options and writing out a plan of action.