You can transform your worried state. If you’re anxious, try these simple at-home interventions: 1. Distinguish the facts on the ground from fear-inducing media messages with hypothetical charts and graphs of future doom. Be informed but don’t watch the news all day....

Even though your psyche appears to be one unified system in which “you” think all your thoughts and feel all your feelings, it’s not. The mind is made up of many different parts, or "sub personalities." Self awareness begins with consciousness of these parts. Without...