Mike Ditka Quotes

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.

At its worst, there's just virtually no organ system in your body that's not thrown out of kilter in some way by chronic psychological stress.

Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

If you're stressed out by someone, or if something is dragging you down, it will show on your skin.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

I think if you're stressed, it shows in every part of you; how you carry yourself, which then affects your pose, how you hold your face, which then makes you look stressed and so nothing looks relaxed.

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'