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regulation and mindfulness into an accessible format for
you to incorporate into your everyday life. Some may have
seemed basic or easy, whereas others may seem overly diffi-
cult or out of reach. After reading this last chapter, we
encourage you to ref lect on the nine skills and highlight the
ones that are less intuitive and require a deeper understand-
ing or more practice.
- Paying attention to your anxiety
- Confronting, rather than avoiding, your anxiety
- Avoiding common thinking traps
- Flexibly responding to your emotions
- Reducing conscious and unconscious threats to
your emotional well-being - Accepting your emotions
- Developing adaptive habits for long- term regula-
tion of your emotions - Letting go of safety behaviors and avoidance
strategies - Learning the integrated model of emotion regu-
lation and mindfulness to successfully overcome
your anxiety
People have a tendency to skim or read a book once and
then set it down, but we encourage you to use this book and
the skills we’ve reviewed as a guide to mastering your anxiety
over the long term (as opposed to only right now or some
discrete time period in the future).