How do you prevent anxiety spikes. Overreactions? (For those who suffer from anxiety related issues)

[kickysnana]

1. Some armchair advice I have developed.

1) Focus on breathing normally and relaxing tense muscles.
2) Step back and become your own best friend to bring yourself back to reality, "I have done this I can do this, everything will be OK"
3) Know, even though you are not feeling it, that even if something does not go right the only way it will ruin anything is if you let it.
4)Take a break.watch a cartoon or try to make wastebasket baskets. take a walk, a shower, play with your pet, call a friend.
5) You can only do what you can and that is enough.
6) Life allows a lot of do-overs. Take them and move on.

I read about a famous coach who said he wished he could pass on his experience to a young second baseman that he had to cut. He said something like. He thinks he failed at life when all he did was fail this opportunity at second base.