I let go of all fear and anxiety knowing that I am healed in the hear and now.

There is an hour after a scan when nothing can be found out. The machine is finished, the results aren't back, and no amount of thinking will move the process along by a minute.

That hour is worth something. It is the closest most people get to being let off — not because the fear has gone anywhere, but because it has temporarily run out of anything to do.

Fear takes instructions badly. It can, though, be set down for the length of a coffee and picked up later if it turns out to be needed.