Anxiety is the biggest monster I have to deal with. Or rather one that i have not figured out how to deal with at all :( I have been thinking about it recently, also reading the section about it in the book..
.. and something started to emerge, just a little: today while waking up I had this brief imagination of a picture of a fist. A feeling of anxiety, and a picture of a fist. Feeling of anxiety, picture of a fist. And I asked myself, what the hell is the fist doing here, and the answer was: Because courage. Because explore. Because what the hell, first act then think.
And yes, here it is: that was my very strategy for surviving as a forever Erasmus student, having to make new friends every 6 months while being a bit of socially phobic. That was my very strategy for going abroad for the first time, and then second time, and then the third.. Why not to apply the very same strategy to emotional life? This is so simple that I never actually thought of that :)