Keep your heart open. When situations trigger your anxiety, the normal tendency is to close your heart and protect yourself. You do this by reacting, escaping or distracting from the situation. Closing your heart doesn’t mean safety. It’s actually the opposite. By closing your heart, you just lock up painful feelings from your past that you don’t want to feel inside you and grow miserable. You free yourself by relaxing into the pain. Just observe the hurtful emotions pass out through you from the seat of your true self ~ Awareness. Being at peace with the pain. You are suffering from anxiety because you build up huge walls of resistance against feeling pain. All actions you take are to cope with this stored pain in your heart. This pain adds up over time and every situation starts to irritate you. Painful feelings like fear, worry and anger are just like happiness , joy or love. Only your judgements make the difference. Relax into it and feel them fully. That’s how to become authentic and whole. Anxiety and depression are not the problem. They are just symptoms your body is forcing you to look into. So you see the root cause: deep suppressed emotional pain that you escaped with distractions and addictions for so long. You are the one listening to the voice in your head. Asking who am I is the highest spiritual practice. Keeping your heart open amidst challenging situations will free you. Your pain is just like any other emotion.