3 Easy Things To Do When Fear and Panic Go Viral

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The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

What do you do when everyone around you is losing their ever-loving mind?

The stock market. Coronavirus. The economy. The elections. These are just a few major events that are eating up our attention right now.

There’s an undercurrent of uncertainty that’s swelling right now, and and it’s causing panic on a scale that hasn’t been seen in our generation.

But fear and panic are never a good way to respond to a crisis. In fact, they only make an already difficult thing worse.

For the most part we’re not able to control what’s happening in the world. The one thing we do still have control over is the way we respond.

Here are 3 easy things to do when fear and panic become the pandemic.

1. Pay Attention to the voices you listen to

There’s a story in the Old Testament book of Numbers about the Hebrews as they’re about to come into the land that God promised.

Freed from slavery in Egypt by Moses, the Israelites followed their leader to the borders of Canaan, where they waited to enter. Finally, this ragtag band of former slaves would have an actual homeland to call…