We often start to feel anxious when there is an aspect of our lives that feels out of our control. So we begin to over plan. We run multiple scenarios to try to predict every outcome. And this likely makes us even more anxious.
One way to reduce these kinds of uncomfortable feelings is to discern that there is almost nothing we really control in our life.
As Dave Evans, author of a Designing Your Life, puts it, “life is a long improv skit. None of us know what is going to happen, we’re making this up as we go along.”
The invitation to see life as an improvisation is a prescription to help us not feel anxious. Because to “improv” is to be present within all the wonderful, unexpected, silly, uncomfortable, and beautiful moments that unfold once we release our desire to control what will happen next.
On Emotions 