What if we saw anxiety not as a condition, but as a useful alarm? First, we would invest less energy in striving to quash it. We would heed its warnings, but then, equally importantly, we would turn it off. Why is this such a hard thing to imagine? When an alarm goes off, it is warning us of danger. The first thing we do is turn it off, so we can proceed to handle the emergency. It would seem strange indeed to leave it blaring, spend energy and time trying to ignore it, until it drives us out of our minds. Yet this is what we routinely do with anxiety.