A strategy for dealing with anxiety and other challenges is to focus on imagination. Imagine a place that calms us, take our time to develop and refine it in our imagination.

The more often we do this, the stronger of a habit it becomes, the more available it is as something that might help.

My imagination place changes from time to time, one constant is that it always has warm sand. I imagine laying down on warm clean sand on a beach somewhere, most likely at twilight. The warm sand relaxes my muscles, is soothing, and I imagine it soaking up and draining away any unnecessary tension and anxiety.