Joyce Meyer Quotes

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

The mind is a funny thing in how it works. Sometimes you have to tell yourself what's really true. If you don't, your mind starts trying to tell you lies.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

I've tried to become a more emotionally intelligent person through therapy and meditation, but I can't control the fact that some of the things written about me aren't true.

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.