when I realized I was beginning to succumb to my stress response I started to direct the activity of my prefrontal cortex into a more productive area, and to think about something else, as I have suggested we should do in these situations. I interrupted my flow of worry and reminded myself that the situation was out of my control. There is nothing I can do about this traffic. Sometimes people are late. Being late happens. It is not the end of the world. Suddenly I started to calm down.
