Does pacing back and forth actually help anxiety? — mashable.com

Maybe you're on a phone interview for the perfect job opportunity, or maybe your in-laws are due to show up any minute. To deal with these everyday stresses and anxieties, we often subconsciously pace back and forth with no destination or clear goal in mind. But what causes pacing, and can it help ease our mood? "Pacing is a behavioral signal to tell yourself that you're too overwhelmed," Sunna Jung, Ph.D., a psychologist specializing in anxiety and trauma, tells Mashable. "It could be a signal trying to teach you about something that's happening in your internal state, or it can be a form of distraction in the moment to calm yourself down."

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