Heidi Julavits Quotes

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

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 believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

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.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

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

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

I stress, worry, get nervous and I start to over-think about a lot of things, but I think a little bit of doubt and nervousness always keeps me on my feet.

Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.

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

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.