Your mind loves to time-travel to next week. Your body never leaves today. Go where your body is.

Thinking runs ahead constantly, rehearsing conversations that may not occur and solving Thursday from inside Monday. Meanwhile there is only ever one place you physically are. That gap is where most low-level worry lives: you are dealing with a situation that has no actual details yet, using a body that is sitting in a chair being fine.

When you catch it, use the body as the way back, since it is always available. Feel your feet, look at four things in the room, notice what you can hear. It is not a cure. It is a way of returning to the only day you can do anything about.