Distraction helps me a lot, like reading a comforting book. Looking beyond when it will be over is good too, if whatever the literal event is can't happen anymore; I look forward to "next week" or whenever and what I'll do then and how good I'll feel, etc.

If it's an ongoing anxiety I make a list of possible ways I can confront it; I'm often worried in the middle of the night about my husband getting sick or dying and how I'd deal with our finances so I'm working to study our financial set-up so I understand it better and it's not quite so frightening.

When anxiety hangs on longer than I think it should I look at it harder to see just what it is that is bothering me. Usually I find something I feel helpless about and I either see if, like above, there's something I can do to make myself feel less helpless or I see if my thoughts aren't out of line (someone else I love has a problem and there's nothing I can do no matter what; no point being "anxious" about that) and/or if there aren't others who feel similarly that I can talk to.

I'm old enough that I have enough life experience that I can think back to other examples of when I've been anxious and how those situations resolved okay and I can then trust "myself" a bit better to manage the anxiety and contain it. I've been okay before when I've been frightened and I'll be frightened in the future but "it will be okay" is what I'd tell myself if I could go back in time and talk to a younger me who was afraid.

I don't try to "get rid" of anxiety though; it is a tool to help me better understand myself and I look for what "good" I can get out of feeling what I feel. That's all information and "practice" in living?