When anxiety effects 1 in 5 people on a regular basis, understanding how this emotion evolved and some effective ways to repurpose the anxiety can be very important. Evolutionarily speaking anxiety kept us safe – the hyper-vigilance from not choosing a poisonous food to always checking to watch out for an animal that could be waiting to eat you. Fast forward a few million years and the anxiety has stayed however the external life/death dangers (for many people) have diminished. – How can one use the traits of this “negative” emotion to help in a modern society? In this article Dr. Boyes describes a few techniques that can help.