Wim Hof Quotes

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

A lot of people, for example, live an anxious life. They don't realize they have a super-high level of anxiety. So we're gonna work on really writing down how anxious you feel at the moment you wake up. There's nothing wrong with it; the point is you learn to evaluate yourself and regulate yourself.

I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.

When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

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.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.

Yoga is an art and science of living.

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

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

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

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