Got a lotta stress lately? bizarre but effective treatment...

How can I stop stressing about the same things over and over?

Try eye-movement technique, a method widely used by psychiatrists in the United States to help treat everything from depression to traumatic stress to social anxiety.

The how-to's:
- Focus on a distressing thought for several minutes, until you feel that the anxiety it produces rates at least a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being superhigh).
- Then keep your head still as you rapidly move your eyes back and forth between two points (say, two sides of a table) 25 times.
- When you finish, rate your stress level again; it should have dropped to at least 4.
- Repeat the technique whenever the stressful thought recurs. "

Although we don't know why it works," notes author Davis, "each time you use EMT, its icky-thought-stopping effect can become more powerful." Thanks for this info Mavis! I will surely need it when crunch time rolls around before the big day!