Active coping

Replace passive activities with more active ones. Put down your phone or pause the movie and consider picking up a book or spending time with friends. 

Active coping often involves directly confronting a problem and adapting to it. Passive coping on the other hand usually involves avoiding the problem, such as waiting for the problem to pass over while worrying and withdrawing in the meantime.

The key difference between the two strategies is that active coping disrupts thought patterns of fear or hopelessness that passive coping instead prolongs.

Active coping actually changes the connections in our brain so that adaptive behavior becomes first resort. Furthermore, active coping is associated with a greater sense of control. Passive coping in contrast reinforces fear circuitry, lessens sense of control, and can increase the stress response in the mind and body.