“… when you pause and intentionally shift your nonjudgmental attention to your sensations and then reflect on them to understand them, you create distance between your thoughts of fear and feelings of fear. Differentiating your thoughts and feelings helps you to see that you are not your fear. Rather, you are simply experiencing fear. With this shift in attention, you uncouple yourself from the fear and become the awareness behind it. This process naturally reduces activity i

“The somatic lens tells us that anxiety is a state of present-moment fear based on past experiences that are informing our expectations of future events. This definition of anxiety implies a skewed perception of reality, with split focus on the past and the future. This is because the unresolved fear and stress from past experiences tell the anxious mind-body that the world is unsafe… and to be on high alert should the bad thing happen again in the future. As a result, the an