Neve McIntosh Quotes

I wake up around nine and do morning chants in my bed. I learned transcendental meditation four years ago, and I do it twice a day, plus an extra ten minutes before the show because I struggle with stage fright just before I go on.

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

I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

We all need to relax more, but I don't find it easy.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

I take a breath when I have to.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I'll do very light, very easy yoga in my dressing room. I like to just lay down on the floor and put my legs on the wall and stretch and just be still.

The yoga pose helps me to calm down and focus when I need to.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

Maybe the yoga I do helps me to play as much as I do. It certainly gets you in the right frame of mind, stretches and relaxes you.

If I'm not doing 'Strictly,' I genuinely like to wake up and start with yoga, because it's good for the mind, not just the body.

The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)