All of them apply at one level or another, but I think the big one for me right now is allowing myself to feel the emotions. Harder than it sounds, but I noticed just this week that if I can manage to 'feel' when I start getting anxious instead of telling myself that I'm okay and I have no reason to be upset, that the anxiety dissipates. Learning to do that is definitely work. It takes a good amount of focus not to fall into the old pattern.
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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