“Through focused breathing, we foster emotional release, ease stress, and cultivate self-awareness.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“If this airplane goes up in flames, we’ll all go up in flames. If it crashes, we’ll crash with it. And if it lands safely on the other side of the ocean, we’ll land right there with it, and we’ll all wait, along with everyone, for our baggage to come out on the carousel. A friend assured me that as soon as we land, this pressure in my chest will vanish. He’s the same friend who told me almost two years ago that the war would be over soon. He’s a good friend, but not the most on-point. I send my wife another selfie from the taxi to the hotel. I’m in the back seat. Eyes open wide at the camera. Completely dry. Nothing to worry about, honey, it’s all good.”
“Pavlov was fascinated with “ideas of the opposite.” Call it a cluster of cells, somewhere on the cortex of the brain. Helping to distinguish pleasure from pain, light from dark, dominance from submission…. But when, somehow—starve them, traumatize, shock, castrate them, send them over into one of the transmarginal phases, past borders of their waking selves, past “equivalent” and “paradoxical” phases—you weaken this idea of the opposite, and here all at once is the paranoid patient who would be master, yet now feels himself a slave… who would be loved, but suffers his world’s indifference, and, “I think,” Pavlov writing to Janet, “it is precisely the ultraparadoxical phase which is the base of the weakening of the idea of the opposite in our patients.” Our madmen, our paranoid, maniac, schizoid, morally imbecile—”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“When you begin to feel like the noise of the world is drowning out your inner voice...Stop,Breathe,Come back to yourself .”
“Stress reveals character; culture decides whether it breaks or builds you.”
Source: The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens
“Calm isn’t the absence of stress; it’s the mastery of your own chemistry.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“The inability to cope with stress can lead to addiction.”
“Suffering, simply put, is what happens when stress exceeds capacity and causes one to exist in a state of being they wish not to be.”
Source: Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering
“Stress thrives in isolation; relief comes through connection.”
“The bags under your eyes? That’s the luggage you took, on a trip straight to hell that you didn't even book.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”