Speaking about anxiety

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What does mindfulness have to do with anxiety? Anxiety sneaks up when we're paying attention to everything but the press moment. Anxiety comes from where to focus on the future. The what? If scenarios. We have no control over, so you have a big test coming up. If you're inches, you'll probably start imagining that you'll fail the test spinning out From there, you might imagine that you'll never get into college and a jobless and the homeless alone and unloved a detailed tragedy that ends ears in the future. There you are, envisioning your miserable, and instead of just planning for tomorrow's test by staying in the moment, which is the essence of mindfulness, we keep that story from getting away from us. We just focus on what is right in front of us and give it our full attention.