I spent years reaching for my phone the moment anxiety hit, and then I found out sound therapists engineered an eight-minute song to slow your heart rate down to 50 beats per minute, and it works better than anything else I tried
For years, the moment anxiety hit, my hand went to my phone before my brain had finished registering what was happening. Not to call anyone. Not even to look anything up. Just to hold it, unlock it, scroll it, as if the object itself were a stress ball with a battery in it. It ne…