If you're trying to "keep calm" while you're anxious, you have to shift your perception of your emotion. Allison Wood Brooks When you tell yourself to "calm down" you have to make two hidden steps ...

Don’t keep calm and carry on ... have this very strong intuition when they feel anxious to try and ‘calm down,'” says Alison Wood Brooks, a professor of business administration at Harvard.

It is on the news, in the papers, on Twitter, on Instagram, and is the topic of seemingly every conversation, writes Alison Curtis ... the radio. Keep the conversation open and calm.