Jake Burhans says the first step to managing negative emotions like fear or anxiety is recognizing they're there. Then step back and create distance from the feeling to interrupt the pattern before it locks you in for minutes or longer.
That's it. It's the awareness that it's there. That's the first step of anything. So anytime you have a, you know, you fear fear or anxiety or jealousy or whatever the case may be, kind of those lower-level negative emotions, it's first of all recognizing it, okay? And then it's stepping back after the fact, 'cause you might be in it, you might get into this groove of fear for like an hour and then you're like, oh wait.
