“The truth is, sometimes Janet revels in stress. Bathes in it. Welcomes it. A certain level buzzing beneath the surface simply means the project is worthwhile, difficult enough to wake her vitals, excite her mind. And if Janet loves anything, it’s to be challenged.”
Source: Loneliness & Company
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.”
“Being overwhelmed isn’t something that happens to you; you create it yourself.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Moving your body every day will manage and reduce your cortisol levels. It'll shift your body from fight or flight mode to rest and digest mode, controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for undoing the work of the sympathetic nervous system. It brings the body back to rest and relaxation mode by reducing stress in the body”
Source: So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life
“Every day, from the moment we wake up, we are faced with choices … One aspect of this is decision fatigue. Making decisions, big or small, uses mental energy, and as you make more choices your cognitive resources get depleted.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“You can appear calm, capable, even high-performing — and still be burning energy on thought loops no one else can see.”
Source: Trapped In Thought: The Hidden Link Between Thoughts, HRV, and Burnout - How The Surfing System™ Can Help
“The chronic stress associated with people-pleasing takes a significant toll on your physical health.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life
“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