After spending nearly 4yrs deployed in the Middle East and then doing drug ops in Central & South America, I boiled it down to this...

There's nobody trying to kill me, so it's not that bad.

It all boils down to perspective. What most of us get anxiety over really isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things... but we let our mind trick us into believing it's worse than it is (partly because it's stemming from a part of the brain that deals with survival instinct, usually an overactive flight response). A judicious application of logic & reasoning, rather than clouding things with emotion and fear, taking an almost clinical approach from an outside perspective, is almost always the best way to approach a problem. Learning to separate your emotional side from your intelligence is the hard part, but it can be trained.

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